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"?
A voice on the radio

An overcast day

Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABCBC

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
Violence in art and poetry

The dead

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 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

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

Enjambment

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole
8 What is the poem's setting?
Victorian London

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America

Chicago in a futuristic era
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its censoring on social media sites

Its removal from a school textbook

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for power

An interest in breaking taboos

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

Local pub

Soft, muddy ground

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

A tattoo

An autograph

A fingerprint
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
Eight hours

The night after next

Last night

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

A shift to the second person

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 "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"?
Alliteration

Understatement

Allusion

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

By berating himself

By insulting the reader

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

Homer's Iliad

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

The cat

The radio host

His best friend
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

It has no regular meter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

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

Quintains

Sestets

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

Medicine

Clouds

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

Grandiose

Measured

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

A boring job

A type of bird

A prank played by children

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