Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Glitter

Fortnight

Squash

Kill
2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker?

Curious

Egomaniacal

Brilliant

Nihilistic
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?

A dead fly

An overcast day

Unemployment paperwork

A voice on the radio
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABCBC

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

The dead

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The speaker's brilliance
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its censoring on social media sites
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?

A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for recognition

A desire for power

An interest in breaking taboos
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub

Small town

Toilet
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?

A fingerprint

A bloodstain

An autograph

A tattoo
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?

The night after next

Last night

Two weeks

Eight hours
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

A switch from fantasy to reality
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The archetype of the serial killer

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?

Allusion

Understatement

Simile

Alliteration
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?

By berating himself

He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel

By killing animals

By insulting the reader
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?

His best friend

The cat

The radio host

A fly
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?

It has no regular meter

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, past tense
22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use?

Sestets

Quatrains

Tercets

Quintains
23 Which of the following words does the speaker use to describe his own breath?

Clouds

Talent

Medicine

Fire
24 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Resentful

Bitter

Grandiose

Measured
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A type of bird

A prank played by children

A boring job

A sibling

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