Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Fortnight

Glitter

Kill

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

Egomaniacal

Brilliant

Nihilistic
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
An overcast day

A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

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

ABCBC

ABA

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The dead

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's brilliance
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?
Chicago in a futuristic era

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America

Victorian London
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites

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

A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos

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

Local pub

Toilet

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

An autograph

A tattoo

A fingerprint
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 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 archetype of the serial killer

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?
Allusion

Simile

Understatement

Alliteration
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By insulting the reader

By berating himself

By killing animals

He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
The Biblical creation story

Homer's Iliad

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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

A fly

The cat

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

Trochaic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

It has no regular meter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, present tense

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

Quintains

Tercets

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

Fire

Talent

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

Grandiose

Measured

Bitter
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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