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

Nihilistic

Curious
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
An overcast day

A dead fly

Unemployment paperwork

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

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB

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

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The speaker's brilliance

The dead
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

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

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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

Foreshadowing

Enjambment

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

1970s America

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

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

A desire for power

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

Toilet

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

A bloodstain

An autograph

A fingerprint
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 reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

A new rhyme scheme

A switch from fantasy to reality
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
The archetype of the serial killer

Factory farming and animal cruelty

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"?
Allusion

Simile

Understatement

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

By insulting the reader

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?
Homer's Iliad

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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

A fly

His best friend

The cat
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Trochaic hexameter

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

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, present tense

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

Quatrains

Quintains

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

Talent

Clouds

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

Grandiose

Measured

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

A sibling

A boring job

A prank played by children

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