Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

By Eleanor Stern · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed April 23, 2022

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Fortnight

Glitter

Squash

Kill
2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker?

Brilliant

Nihilistic

Curious

Egomaniacal
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?

A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A dead fly
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABA

ABAB

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia
8 What is the poem's setting?

Victorian London

1970s America

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?

Its censoring on social media sites

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?

A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for recognition

A desire for power
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?

Local pub

Toilet

Small town

Soft, muddy ground
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?

A fingerprint

A tattoo

An autograph

A bloodstain
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?

Eight hours

Last night

The night after next

Two weeks
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A switch from fantasy to reality

A reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

A new rhyme scheme
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?

The archetype of the serial killer

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

Factory farming and animal cruelty
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?

Simile

Understatement

Alliteration

Allusion
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?

By killing animals

By berating himself

He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel

By insulting the reader
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?

The cat

His best friend

The radio host

A fly
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?

Spondaic monometer

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, past tense
22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use?

Quintains

Quatrains

Sestets

Tercets
23 Which of the following words does the speaker use to describe his own breath?

Clouds

Talent

Medicine

Fire
24 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Bitter

Resentful

Grandiose

Measured
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A boring job

A sibling

A type of bird

A prank played by children

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