Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Squash

Fortnight

Kill

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

Nihilistic

Brilliant

Curious
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly

An overcast day
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

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
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment
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 role inspiring a wave of violent crime

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 desire for recognition

An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for power
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Toilet

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub

Small town
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
A tattoo

A bloodstain

A fingerprint

An autograph
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
Last night

Eight hours

The night after next

Two weeks
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality

A shift to the second person
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
Factory farming and animal cruelty

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

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

Understatement

Alliteration

Simile
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By berating himself

By insulting the reader

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

By killing animals
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
The Biblical creation story

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Homer's Iliad

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The cat

The radio host

His best friend

A fly
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person plural, present tense

First person singular, past tense

Third person singular, past tense

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

Quatrains

Sestets

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

Clouds

Fire

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

Measured

Bitter

Resentful
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A boring job

A prank played by children

A sibling

A type of bird

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