Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Glitter

Kill

Squash

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

Curious

Brilliant

Egomaniacal
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?
A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day

A dead fly
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB

ABA
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The dead

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

Violence in art and poetry
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

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

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?
Hyperbole

Enjambment

Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia
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

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?
Toilet

Local pub

Small town

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

A bloodstain

A fingerprint

An autograph
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
Last night

Eight hours

The night after next

Two weeks
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?
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"?
Allusion

Alliteration

Understatement

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

By insulting the reader

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?
The Biblical creation story

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Homer's Iliad

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

His best friend

A fly

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

It has no regular meter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?
First person plural, present tense

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

First 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?
Clouds

Fire

Talent

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

Grandiose

Measured

Bitter
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A type of bird

A prank played by children

A boring job

A sibling

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