Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Fortnight

Glitter

Squash

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"?
A dead fly

A voice on the radio

Unemployment paperwork

An overcast day
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA

ABCBC

ABAB

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
The dead

Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
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

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

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?
Late twentieth-century Britain

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London

1970s America
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?
Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook

Its censoring on social media sites

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime
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?
Toilet

Small town

Soft, muddy ground

Local pub
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?
A fingerprint

An autograph

A bloodstain

A tattoo
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 reference to a real-life murder

A switch from fantasy to reality

A new rhyme scheme
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?
The archetype of the serial killer

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?
Alliteration

Allusion

Simile

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

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

By killing animals

By insulting the reader
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?
Homer's Iliad

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

The Biblical creation story

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

A fly

The radio host

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

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter
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?
Quintains

Quatrains

Sestets

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

Clouds

Talent

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

Grandiose

Bitter

Resentful
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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