Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Glitter

Squash

Fortnight

Kill
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"?
A voice on the radio

An overcast day

A dead fly

Unemployment paperwork
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABCBC

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead

The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

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?
Hyperbole

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

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

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era

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

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its removal from a school textbook

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?
Toilet

Local pub

Small town

Soft, muddy ground
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
An autograph

A fingerprint

A tattoo

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

Last night

Eight hours

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 "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The archetype of the serial killer
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?
Allusion

Understatement

Simile

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

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

By berating himself

By insulting the reader
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

The Biblical creation story

Homer's Iliad
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?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

It has no regular meter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person plural, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, past tense

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

Sestets

Tercets

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

Clouds

Fire

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

Resentful

Measured

Grandiose
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A sibling

A prank played by children

A boring job

A type of bird

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