Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Kill

Glitter

Fortnight

Squash
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

A dead fly

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

It has no rhyme scheme

ABAB

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

The speaker's brilliance

The dead

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?
Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

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

Victorian London

1970s America

Chicago in a futuristic era
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 desire for power

A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos

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?
An autograph

A bloodstain

A fingerprint

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

Last night

Eight hours

Two weeks
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?
A switch from fantasy to reality

A reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

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"?
Understatement

Simile

Alliteration

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

By berating himself

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

By insulting the reader
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?
A fly

His best friend

The radio host

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

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

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 plural, present tense

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

Tercets

Quatrains

Sestets
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?
Bitter

Resentful

Measured

Grandiose
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?
A sibling

A type of bird

A prank played by children

A boring job

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