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

Curious

Nihilistic

Brilliant
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A dead fly

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

ABCBC

ABA

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry

The dead

The speaker's separateness and exclusion
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

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

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its censoring on social media sites

Its removal from a school textbook

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

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

A desire for recognition

A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos
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 tattoo

A fingerprint

An autograph

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

Last night

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 "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The archetype of the serial killer

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

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

Alliteration

Simile

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

By killing animals

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

By berating himself
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

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The radio host

His best friend

The cat

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

Trochaic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

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?
Sestets

Tercets

Quatrains

Quintains
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?
Bitter

Resentful

Measured

Grandiose
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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