Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Squash

Glitter

Fortnight

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

Brilliant

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?
ABA

It has no rhyme scheme

ABCBC

ABAB
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry

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?
Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

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

Victorian London

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites

Its removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A desire for power

An interest in breaking taboos

A curiosity about extreme acts

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

Local pub

Toilet

Small town
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
A tattoo

A bloodstain

A fingerprint

An autograph
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
Two weeks

Eight hours

The night after next

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

A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality
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"?
Understatement

Alliteration

Allusion

Simile
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By berating himself

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

By insulting the reader

By killing animals
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Homer's Iliad

The Biblical creation story

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?
His best friend

The cat

A fly

The radio host
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?
Spondaic monometer

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

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

First person singular, present tense

First person plural, present tense

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

Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains
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 boring job

A sibling

A prank played by children

A type of bird

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