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?

Glitter

Kill

Fortnight

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

Brilliant

Curious

Nihilistic

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

A dead fly

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A voice on the radio
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABAB

It has no rhyme scheme

ABA

ABCBC
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry

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?

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Enjambment

Hyperbole
8 What is the poem's setting?

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook

Its censoring on social media sites
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?

An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for recognition

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

Toilet

Local pub

Soft, muddy ground

Small town
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?

A fingerprint

An autograph

A tattoo

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

Eight hours

The night after next

Two weeks

Last night
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A shift to the second person

A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The archetype of the serial killer

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?

Simile

Allusion

Alliteration

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

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

By killing animals

By insulting the reader

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

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?

The cat

The radio host

A fly

His best friend
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

Spondaic monometer
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person singular, past tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, present tense

First person plural, present tense
22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use?

Quintains

Tercets

Quatrains

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

Fire

Medicine

Clouds

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

Resentful

Bitter

Grandiose

Measured
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A boring job

A sibling

A prank played by children

A type of bird

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