1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia? Fortnight Kill Squash Glitter 2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker? Egomaniacal Curious Brilliant Nihilistic 3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"? Unemployment paperwork A dead fly An overcast day A voice on the radio 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB It has no rhyme scheme ABCBC ABA 5 What does Shakespeare symbolize? The speaker's brilliance The speaker's separateness and exclusion Violence in art and poetry The dead 6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony? The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines 7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what? Foreshadowing Enjambment Onomatopoeia Hyperbole 8 What is the poem's setting? 1970s America Late twentieth-century Britain Victorian London Chicago in a futuristic era 9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008? Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film Its censoring on social media sites Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime Its removal from a school textbook 10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing? A desire for power An interest in breaking taboos A curiosity about extreme acts A desire for recognition 11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context? Soft, muddy ground Small town Toilet Local pub 12 To what does the speaker compare his signature? A tattoo A fingerprint An autograph A bloodstain 13 What does the word "fortnight" mean? Eight hours The night after next Two weeks Last night 14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line? A switch from fantasy to reality A reference to a real-life murder A new rhyme scheme A shift to the second person 15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem? The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning Factory farming and animal cruelty The archetype of the serial killer 16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"? Allusion Alliteration Understatement Simile 17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem? He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel By berating himself By killing animals By insulting the reader 18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following? Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury The Biblical creation story Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Homer's Iliad 19 What or who is the speaker's first victim? The radio host A fly The cat His best friend 20 What is the poem's meter throughout? Trochaic hexameter Spondaic monometer Iambic pentameter It has no regular meter 21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense? First person singular, present tense Third person singular, past tense First person singular, past tense First person plural, present tense 22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use? Sestets Tercets Quatrains Quintains 23 Which of the following words does the speaker use to describe his own breath? Clouds Medicine Talent Fire 24 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone? Measured Bitter Resentful Grandiose 25 What does the word "budgie" mean? A prank played by children A type of bird A sibling A boring job
