Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Fortnight

Kill

Glitter

Squash
2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker?
Nihilistic

Brilliant

Curious

Egomaniacal
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly

An overcast day
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABA

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme
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 poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

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?
Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing
8 What is the poem's setting?
Chicago in a futuristic era

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America

Victorian London
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A desire for power

A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for recognition

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

Soft, muddy ground

Small town

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?
Eight hours

Last night

Two weeks

The night after next
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A shift to the second person

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality

A new rhyme scheme
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

Factory farming and animal cruelty

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

Allusion

Alliteration

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

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

By killing animals

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 cat

A fly

The radio host

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

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person singular, present tense

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, past tense

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

Tercets

Quintains

Quatrains
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?
Grandiose

Resentful

Measured

Bitter
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A type of bird

A boring job

A prank played by children

A sibling

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