Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Fortnight

Kill

Squash

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

Curious

Nihilistic

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

A dead fly

Unemployment paperwork

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

It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry

The dead

The speaker's separateness and exclusion
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's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

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

Victorian London

Chicago in a futuristic era

Late twentieth-century Britain
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 quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A desire for recognition

A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for power
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Small town

Local pub

Toilet

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

A tattoo

A bloodstain

A fingerprint
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
The night after next

Two weeks

Eight hours

Last night
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality

A shift to the second person
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 berating himself

By killing animals

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

By insulting the reader
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
The cat

His best friend

The radio host

A fly
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer

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

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, past tense

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

Quintains

Quatrains

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

Clouds

Talent

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 prank played by children

A sibling

A boring job

A type of bird

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