Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?
Romanticism

Modernist

Gothic

Classical
2 Where was John Clare born?
An industrial city in the North

A small English village

America, before moving back to England

London
3 What was Clare's economic background?
Lower-middle class

Gentry

Upper-middle class

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

The lives of animals

Country sport

Desire for the city
5 When was John Clare born?
1793

1823

1784

1845
6 What are heroic couplets?
Lines of poetry in an alternating rhyme scheme, abab

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?
As conventional

As avant-garde

As infantile

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

He was ignorant of their work

He occasionally alluded to their work

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

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Simile
10 In what voice is "The Badger" written?
First-person limited

Third-person omniscient

First-person omniscient

Second-person limited
11 What is the setting of "The Badger"?
A dog-fighting arena

A crowded city street

A country village and the surrounding woods

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

The poacher

The drunkard

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 centers the badger's experiences

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 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As a barbaric and outdated practice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?
Violence

Ferocity

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?
Parallelism

Alliteration

Simile

Allusion
19 Which of the following does NOT personify the badger?
The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe

And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies

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 an ordinary part of country life

As unnecessary and cruel

As tragic and noble

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 poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger

The poem presents the hunt as routine

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poet's tone is distant
23 How does Clare convey the excitement of the hunt?
He uses dense figurative language, comparing the hunt to a great battle

He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

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 general atmosphere

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

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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