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?
Egomaniacal

Nihilistic

Brilliant

Curious
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
An overcast day

A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

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

ABCBC

ABAB

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's brilliance

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 can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Enjambment

Foreshadowing
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 removal from a school textbook

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for power

A desire for recognition

An interest in breaking taboos
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Small town

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub

Toilet
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
A bloodstain

An autograph

A fingerprint

A tattoo
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
The night after next

Eight hours

Last night

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 switch from fantasy to reality

A reference to a real-life murder
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 archetype of the serial killer

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?
Understatement

Alliteration

Allusion

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?
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

The Biblical creation story

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person plural, present tense

First person singular, present tense

First person singular, past tense

Third person singular, past tense
22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use?
Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains

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

Medicine

Talent

Clouds
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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