Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Glitter

Kill

Fortnight

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

Egomaniacal

Nihilistic

Brilliant
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
A voice on the radio

A dead fly

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA

ABCBC

ABAB

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's brilliance

Violence in art and poetry

The dead

The speaker's separateness and exclusion
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 is a genius, while readers know he isn't

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

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

Victorian London

1970s America

Late twentieth-century Britain
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

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

A desire for power

An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Local pub

Soft, muddy ground

Toilet

Small town
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

The night after next

Last night

Two weeks
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A shift to the second person

A reference to a real-life murder

A new rhyme scheme

A switch from fantasy to reality
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
Factory farming and animal cruelty

The archetype of the serial killer

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

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"?
Alliteration

Allusion

Understatement

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

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

By killing animals

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

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Homer's Iliad

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

The radio host

The cat

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

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

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

First person singular, past tense

First person singular, present tense

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

Quatrains

Sestets

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

Clouds

Medicine

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

Grandiose

Resentful

Bitter
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A type of bird

A prank played by children

A sibling

A boring job

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