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Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

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1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?

Gothic

Classical

Romanticism

Modernist
2 Where was John Clare born?

America, before moving back to England

London

An industrial city in the North

A small English village
3 What was Clare's economic background?

Lower-middle class

Upper-middle class

Gentry

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

Desire for the city

Rural traditions

Country sport

The lives of animals
5 When was John Clare born?

1793

1784

1823

1845
6 What are heroic couplets?

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

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?

As avant-garde

As conventional

As infantile

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

He was ignorant of their work

He borrowed extensively from them

He occasionally alluded to their work

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

Synecdoche

Simile

Metaphor

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

First-person omniscient

Second-person limited

First-person limited

Third-person omniscient
11 What is the setting of "The Badger"?

A country village and the surrounding woods

A crowded city street

A dog-fighting arena

A lonely house in the middle of nowhere
12 Who is NOT individually characterized in "The Badger"?

The drunkard

The poacher

The hunters

The badger
13 What tense is the badger written in?

Simple present

Future

Habitual present

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

Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

Clare centers the badger's experiences

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

The hunters

The poacher

The badger

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

As a natural country tradition

As a chance to get rid of a pest

As a necessary evil

As a barbaric and outdated practice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

Affection

Violence

Ferocity

Courage
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?

Alliteration

Parallelism

Simile

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

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe

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
20 What does the word "hold" symbolize in the second and third stanzas?

The men's grip on the badger

The badger's desire to return home

The badger's need for affection

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

As an ordinary part of country life

As victorious, a cause for celebration

As tragic and noble

As unnecessary and cruel
22 Which of the following is NOT a convincing argument for reading "The Badger" as condoning the practice it describes?

The poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poet's tone is distant

The poem presents the hunt as routine
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 a general atmosphere

As an evil to be rooted out

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a battle between one beast and its single foe
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Stable and seemingly eternal

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