Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Kill

Glitter

Squash

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

Egomaniacal

Nihilistic

Curious

Brilliant
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?

An overcast day

A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no rhyme scheme

ABCBC

ABAB

ABA
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

Violence in art and poetry

The dead

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion
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?

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole
8 What is the poem's setting?

Victorian London

1970s America

Chicago in a futuristic era

Late twentieth-century Britain
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 censoring on social media sites

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

An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for recognition

A desire for power

A curiosity about extreme acts
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?

Local pub

Soft, muddy ground

Toilet

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

A bloodstain

An autograph

A tattoo

A fingerprint
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?

Two weeks

The night after next

Last night

Eight hours
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A switch from fantasy to reality

A shift to the second person

A reference to a real-life murder

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

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The archetype of the serial killer

Factory farming and animal cruelty
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?

Simile

Allusion

Understatement

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

By insulting the reader

By killing animals

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

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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

A fly

His best friend

The radio host

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

It has no regular meter

Trochaic hexameter

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 singular, present tense

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

Tercets

Sestets

Quintains

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

Talent

Fire

Medicine

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 boring job

A prank played by children

A type of bird

A sibling

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