Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?

Romanticism

Modernist

Classical

Gothic
2 Where was John Clare born?

A small English village

An industrial city in the North

America, before moving back to England

London
3 What was Clare's economic background?

Lower-middle class

Gentry

Working class

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

Country sport

Desire for the city

Rural traditions

The lives of animals
5 When was John Clare born?

1823

1793

1784

1845
6 What are heroic couplets?

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

Lines of poetry in an alternating rhyme scheme, abab

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?

As old-fashioned

As avant-garde

As infantile

As conventional
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 rejected their style

He borrowed extensively from them
9 Which of the following literary devices does John Clare employ in "The Badger"?

Enjambment

Synecdoche

Simile

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

Third-person omniscient

First-person omniscient

Second-person limited

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

A lonely house in the middle of nowhere

A dog-fighting arena

A country village and the surrounding woods

A crowded city street
12 Who is NOT individually characterized in "The Badger"?

The badger

The poacher

The hunters

The drunkard
13 What tense is the badger written in?

Simple present

Habitual present

Simple past

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

Clare centers the badger's experiences

Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

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

The women

The hunters

The poacher

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

As a necessary evil

As a chance to get rid of a pest

As a natural country tradition

As a barbaric and outdated practice
17 Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the badger that Clare celebrates?

Courage

Affection

Violence

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?

Parallelism

Allusion

Simile

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

And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe

The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray

The badger grins and never leaves his hold
20 What does the word "hold" symbolize in the second and third stanzas?

The badger's desire to return home

The badger's need for affection

The men's grip on the badger

The badger's courage and ferocity
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?

As unnecessary and cruel

As tragic and noble

As victorious, a cause for celebration

As an ordinary part of country life
22 Which of the following is NOT a convincing argument for reading "The Badger" as condoning the practice it describes?

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poet's tone is distant

The poem presents the hunt as routine

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

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

He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

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

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

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a general atmosphere

As a battle between one beast and its single foe

As an evil to be rooted out
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Stable and seemingly eternal

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

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