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?

America, before moving back to England

An industrial city in the North

A small English village

London
3 What was Clare's economic background?

Gentry

Upper-middle class

Lower-middle class

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

Country sport

The lives of animals

Desire for the city

Rural traditions
5 When was John Clare born?

1845

1793

1823

1784
6 What are heroic couplets?

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle

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 infantile

As avant-garde

As conventional

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

He rejected their style

He occasionally alluded to their work

He borrowed extensively from them

He was ignorant of their work
9 Which of the following literary devices does John Clare employ in "The Badger"?

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Simile

Enjambment
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 country village and the surrounding woods

A crowded city street

A lonely house in the middle of nowhere

A dog-fighting arena
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 past

Future

Habitual present

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

Clare centers the badger's experiences

Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

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

The women

The badger

The hunters

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

As a natural country tradition

As a barbaric and outdated practice

As a chance to get rid of a pest

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

Ferocity

Violence

Affection

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

Allusion

Parallelism

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

The badger grins and never leaves his hold

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

The badger's need for affection

The men's grip on the badger

The badger's desire to return home

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

As an ordinary part of country life

As tragic and noble

As victorious, a cause for celebration

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 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 employs a speaker who delights in 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

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

As an evil to be rooted out

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a battle between one beast and its single foe

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

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Stable and seemingly eternal

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