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?

Nihilistic

Brilliant

Curious

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

Unemployment paperwork

A dead fly

An overcast day

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

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB

ABA
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead

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 speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

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?

Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?

Late twentieth-century Britain

Victorian London

Chicago in a futuristic era

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its removal from a school textbook

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

A desire for power

A desire for recognition

An interest in breaking taboos

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

Local pub

Small town

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?

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 "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s

Factory farming and animal cruelty

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"?

Understatement

Simile

Alliteration

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

By berating himself

By insulting the reader

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?

The Biblical creation story

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Homer's Iliad
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

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, past tense

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

Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains

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

Fire

Clouds

Medicine

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

Grandiose

Resentful

Measured

Bitter
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A sibling

A prank played by children

A type of bird

A boring job

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