Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?

Modernist

Classical

Romanticism

Gothic
2 Where was John Clare born?

America, before moving back to England

A small English village

An industrial city in the North

London
3 What was Clare's economic background?

Working class

Gentry

Upper-middle class

Lower-middle class
4 Which of the following was NOT a frequent subject of Clare's early poems?

The lives of animals

Rural traditions

Country sport

Desire for the city
5 When was John Clare born?

1784

1793

1845

1823
6 What are heroic couplets?

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

Lines of poetry in an alternating rhyme scheme, abab
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?

As conventional

As infantile

As old-fashioned

As avant-garde
8 How did John Clare's early work respond to previous poets?

He was ignorant of their work

He occasionally alluded to their work

He borrowed extensively from them

He rejected their style
9 Which of the following literary devices does John Clare employ in "The Badger"?

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Enjambment

Simile
10 In what voice is "The Badger" written?

Third-person omniscient

First-person limited

First-person omniscient

Second-person limited
11 What is the setting of "The Badger"?

A crowded city street

A country village and the surrounding woods

A lonely house in the middle of nowhere

A dog-fighting arena
12 Who is NOT individually characterized in "The Badger"?

The poacher

The badger

The hunters

The drunkard
13 What tense is the badger written in?

Future

Habitual present

Simple past

Simple present
14 Which of the following is a convincing argument for Clare's sympathy towards the badger?

Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

Clare centers the badger's experiences

All of the above
15 Who is the protagonist of "The Badger"?

The women

The hunters

The badger

The poacher
16 How does Clare present the practice of badger baiting?

As a chance to get rid of a pest

As a barbaric and outdated practice

As a natural country tradition

As a necessary evil
17 Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the badger that Clare celebrates?

Courage

Violence

Affection

Ferocity
18 In the second stanza, Clare writes "The bulldog knows his match and waxes cold,/The badger grins and never leaves his hold." This is an example of what literary device?

Simile

Parallelism

Alliteration

Allusion
19 Which of the following does NOT personify the badger?

The badger grins and never leaves his hold

The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray

And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe
20 What does the word "hold" symbolize in the second and third stanzas?

The badger's courage and ferocity

The badger's desire to return home

The badger's need for affection

The men's grip on the badger
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?

As tragic and noble

As unnecessary and cruel

As an ordinary part of country life

As victorious, a cause for celebration
22 Which of the following is NOT a convincing argument for reading "The Badger" as condoning the practice it describes?

The poet's tone is distant

The poem presents the hunt as routine

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger
23 How does Clare convey the excitement of the hunt?

He uses dense figurative language, comparing the hunt to a great battle

He rapidly switches between subjects, forcing the reader's attention to remain mobile

He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

All of the above
24 How does Clare portray violence in "The Badger"

As an evil to be rooted out

As a battle between one beast and its single foe

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a general atmosphere
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Stable and seemingly eternal

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