Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Squash

Kill

Fortnight

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

Nihilistic

Curious

Brilliant
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?
ABCBC

ABAB

It has no rhyme scheme

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 can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

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

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole
8 What is the poem's setting?
Victorian London

1970s America

Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its censoring on social media sites

Its removal from a school textbook

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

An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts

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

Local pub

Toilet

Soft, muddy ground
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
A fingerprint

A tattoo

A bloodstain

An autograph
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
The night after next

Eight hours

Last night

Two weeks
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 new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
Factory farming and animal cruelty

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

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

Simile

Alliteration

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

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

By berating himself

By insulting the reader
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

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

The radio host

A fly

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

It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

First person singular, present tense

Third 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?
Resentful

Grandiose

Bitter

Measured
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A boring job

A sibling

A prank played by children

A type of bird

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