Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Glitter

Fortnight

Squash

Kill
2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker?
Egomaniacal

Brilliant

Curious

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

A voice on the radio

An overcast day

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

The dead

The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry
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 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
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia
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 censoring on social media sites

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for recognition

A curiosity about extreme acts

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

Local pub

Soft, muddy ground

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

An autograph

A tattoo

A bloodstain
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
Last night

Eight hours

The night after next

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 "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The archetype of the serial killer

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?
Allusion

Alliteration

Simile

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

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

By insulting the reader

By berating himself
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The cat

His best friend

A fly

The radio host
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?
First person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

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

Tercets

Sestets

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

Talent

Fire

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

Bitter

Measured

Resentful
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A prank played by children

A type of bird

A boring job

A sibling

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