Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Kill

Squash

Glitter

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

Egomaniacal

Curious

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?

ABA

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

The speaker's brilliance

The dead

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry
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 believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing
8 What is the poem's setting?

Victorian London

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era

1970s America
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 censoring on social media sites

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?

An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for power

A curiosity about extreme acts

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

Small town

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub

Toilet
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?

An autograph

A bloodstain

A fingerprint

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

Two weeks

The night after next

Eight hours

Last night
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A shift to the second person

A switch from fantasy to reality

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"?

Simile

Understatement

Allusion

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

By insulting the reader

By killing animals

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?

The radio host

The cat

His best friend

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

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

Spondaic monometer
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person singular, present tense

First person singular, past tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person plural, present 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?

Medicine

Fire

Clouds

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

Resentful

Bitter

Measured

Grandiose
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A prank played by children

A boring job

A type of bird

A sibling

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