Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Fortnight

Kill

Squash

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"?

An overcast day

A dead fly

Unemployment paperwork

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

ABAB

It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABCBC
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead

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

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?

Victorian London

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era

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

An interest in breaking taboos

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

Local pub

Toilet

Soft, muddy ground

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

The night after next

Two weeks

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

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality

A shift to the second person

A new rhyme scheme
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The archetype of the serial killer

Factory farming and animal cruelty
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?

Simile

Understatement

Alliteration

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

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

By berating himself

By insulting the reader

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

Homer's Iliad

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

The Biblical creation story

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

The radio host

His best friend

A fly

The cat
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?

Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person singular, past tense

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

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

Sestets

Tercets

Quintains

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

Clouds

Fire

Medicine

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

Bitter

Measured

Grandiose

Resentful
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A boring job

A type of bird

A sibling

A prank played by children

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