Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Squash

Glitter

Kill

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

Egomaniacal

Brilliant

Curious
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A dead fly

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

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB

ABCBC
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's brilliance
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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

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?
Enjambment

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia
8 What is the poem's setting?
Late twentieth-century Britain

Victorian London

Chicago in a futuristic era

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its censoring on social media sites

Its removal from a school textbook

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A desire for recognition

A curiosity about extreme acts

A desire for power

An interest in breaking taboos
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Toilet

Small town

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub
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

Two weeks

The night after next
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 new rhyme scheme

A shift to the second person
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The archetype of the serial killer
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?
Simile

Alliteration

Allusion

Understatement
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By killing animals

By berating himself

By insulting the reader

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?
Homer's Iliad

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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

The cat

His best friend

The radio host
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person plural, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, present tense

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

Sestets

Quintains

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

Talent

Clouds

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

Bitter

Resentful

Measured
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A sibling

A type of bird

A boring job

A prank played by children

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