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

Nihilistic

Egomaniacal

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?
ABA

ABAB

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?
Violence in art and poetry

The speaker's brilliance

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The dead
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
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 believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

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

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing
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 removal from a school textbook

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its censoring on social media sites
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?
A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos

A desire for power

A desire for recognition
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?
Toilet

Local pub

Soft, muddy ground

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

An autograph

A tattoo

A fingerprint
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?
The night after next

Two weeks

Eight hours

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 new rhyme scheme

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 archetype of the serial killer

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"?
Understatement

Alliteration

Simile

Allusion
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?
By insulting the reader

By berating himself

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

Homer's Iliad

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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?
Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

It has no regular meter

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

Third person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense

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

Quatrains

Quintains

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

Talent

Medicine

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

Resentful

Bitter

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

A prank played by children

A sibling

A type of bird

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