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?

Brilliant

Egomaniacal

Curious

Nihilistic
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?

ABCBC

ABA

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

The dead

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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 poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia
8 What is the poem's setting?

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London

1970s America

Late twentieth-century Britain
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?

Its removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites
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?

Local pub

Small town

Soft, muddy ground

Toilet
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?

A bloodstain

A fingerprint

A tattoo

An autograph
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?

Last night

Two weeks

Eight hours

The night after next
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

A switch from fantasy to reality

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

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The archetype of the serial killer

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

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

Simile

Alliteration

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

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

By killing animals

By insulting the reader

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

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

The Biblical creation story

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Homer's Iliad
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?

The radio host

The cat

A fly

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

Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person singular, past tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

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

Quatrains

Tercets

Quintains

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

Fire

Clouds

Talent

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

Measured

Grandiose

Resentful

Bitter
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A sibling

A type of bird

A boring job

A prank played by children

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