Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Kill

Glitter

Squash

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

Brilliant

Curious

Egomaniacal

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

An overcast day

Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly

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

It has no rhyme scheme

ABCBC

ABAB

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

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
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

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 removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

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

An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for recognition

A curiosity about extreme acts

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

Toilet

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub

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?

Two weeks

The night after next

Last night

Eight hours
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A switch from fantasy to reality

A new rhyme scheme

A shift to the second person

A reference to a real-life murder
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"?

Simile

Allusion

Alliteration

Understatement
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?

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
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?

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

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

First person singular, past tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

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

Tercets

Quatrains

Quintains

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

Medicine

Fire

Talent

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

Grandiose

Measured

Bitter

Resentful
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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