Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Glitter

Kill

Fortnight

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

Egomaniacal

Curious

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

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A dead fly
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABA

It has no rhyme scheme

ABCBC
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The dead

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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

Foreshadowing

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia
8 What is the poem's setting?
Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America

Victorian London

Chicago in a futuristic era
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites

Its removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A desire for recognition

A desire for power

An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts
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 bloodstain

A tattoo

A fingerprint

An autograph
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
The night after next

Last night

Eight hours

Two weeks
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A shift to the second person

A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

Factory farming and animal cruelty

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"?
Alliteration

Understatement

Allusion

Simile
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By insulting the reader

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

By berating himself

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

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Homer's Iliad
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The cat

A fly

The radio host

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

Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter

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

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

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

Sestets

Quintains

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

Clouds

Medicine

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

Resentful

Measured

Bitter
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A sibling

A type of bird

A prank played by children

A boring job

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