Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Squash

Fortnight

Glitter

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

Brilliant

Nihilistic

Egomaniacal

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

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A voice on the radio

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

ABA

ABAB

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

Violence in art and poetry

The dead

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

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 believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

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

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?

1970s America

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London
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 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?

Soft, muddy ground

Toilet

Local pub

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

A tattoo

An autograph

A fingerprint

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

Two weeks

Last night

Eight hours

The night after next
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A switch from fantasy to reality

A shift to the second person

A reference to a real-life murder

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

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

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"?

Allusion

Understatement

Simile

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

By killing animals

By insulting the reader

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

By berating himself
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?

His best friend

The cat

A fly

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

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

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

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, present tense

First person singular, past tense

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

Quatrains

Sestets

Tercets

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

Clouds

Talent

Fire

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

Resentful

Grandiose

Bitter

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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