Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Kill

Fortnight

Squash

Glitter
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"?
Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly

A voice on the radio

An overcast day
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABAB

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

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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?
Victorian London

Chicago in a futuristic era

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its removal from a school textbook

Its censoring on social media sites

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for recognition

A desire for power

A curiosity about extreme acts
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Small town

Soft, muddy ground

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?
Last night

Two weeks

The night after next

Eight hours
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

A switch from fantasy to reality

A new rhyme scheme
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
Factory farming and animal cruelty

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

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

Simile

Understatement
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By killing animals

By berating himself

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

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

Homer's Iliad

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

The Biblical creation story
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The radio host

The cat

A fly

His best friend
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Trochaic hexameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

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

Sestets

Tercets

Quatrains
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?
Grandiose

Bitter

Measured

Resentful
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A type of bird

A boring job

A sibling

A prank played by children

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