Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Fortnight

Squash

Kill

Glitter
2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker?
Curious

Nihilistic

Brilliant

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

A dead fly

An overcast day

Unemployment paperwork
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

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead

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 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
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment

Foreshadowing
8 What is the poem's setting?
1970s America

Chicago in a futuristic era

Late twentieth-century Britain

Victorian London
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 removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for power

A desire for recognition
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Soft, muddy ground

Toilet

Small town

Local pub
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
A tattoo

An autograph

A fingerprint

A bloodstain
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
Two weeks

The night after next

Eight hours

Last night
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 effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The archetype of the serial killer

Factory farming and animal cruelty

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

Allusion

Alliteration
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel

By berating himself

By killing animals

By insulting the reader
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
The Biblical creation story

Homer's Iliad

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The cat

The radio host

His best friend

A fly
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person singular, past tense

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

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

Quatrains

Quintains

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

Fire

Clouds

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

Resentful

Bitter

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

A prank played by children

A boring job

A sibling

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