Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quizzes

Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quiz

1 From whose perspective is the poem told?
Someone recounting the scene of a burst water pipe in an impoverished community afflicted with drought.

First-person perspective from the perspective of someone living in poverty

First-person perspective of a woman gathering water from a burst municipal pipe

First-person perspective of an adult recounting the instance of a burst municipal pipe when they were a child
2 Describe the poem's stanzas.
Five stanzas of varying length

Four stanzas of varying length

Four quatrains

Three quatrains
3 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor or simile?
"the voice of a kindly god"

"silver crashes to the ground"

"the small splash"

"The skin cracks like a pod"
4 What is a metaphor?
A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning

Metaphor is a description of one thing as a different, unrelated thing

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession

Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"
5 Finish this quote: "The skin cracks like _"
the ground

a seed

a pod

a pipe
6 Define "pod" as used in the poem.
a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function

an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe

the part of a plant that attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers.

a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant
7 Which is the shortest stanza?
The first

The fourth

The second

The third
8 What is the effect of the shortest stanza?
To demonstrate a bursting pipe

There is no effect

To convey the severity of drought

To show an outpouring of water
9 What is the poem's meter?
Free verse

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
fortune

echo

drip

mug
11 What is onomatopoeia?
A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
12 Where has Dharker specified as the setting of "Blessing"?
Bhalsw in Delhi

Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

Dharavi in Mumbai

Daravi in Bombay
13 Is the exact setting (name of the community) specified in the poem?
Yes—Dharavi in Mumbai

Yes—Daravi in Bombay

No

Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore
14 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
Light

Water

Pots

The municipal Pipe
15 What is the poem's tone?
Critical, Hopeful

Joyful, Celebratory

Bitter, Bleak

Pensive, Happy
16 What word is NOT used to describe water?
Flow

Blessing

Gold

Silver
17 What does the blessing do at the end of the poem?
Flow towards the river

Roar out from the pipe

Sing to the people gathering

Sing over the small bones of the children
18 Which of the following best alludes to how densely populated the neighborhood is?
every man woman child for streets around butts in

with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun

There never is enough water.
19 Which sense does Dharker particularly engage with in this poem?
Gustatory

Auditory

Tactile

Olfactory
20 Which is a synecdoche?
The skin cracks like a pod.

the sudden rush

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,

frantic hands
21 What is synecdoche?
A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning.

A word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.
22 In the poem, water is personified as a:
A child

A fellow community member

Deity

A lover
23 Which of the following is NOT an explicit theme in the poem?
The presence of children

The importance of water

Drought

The active struggle between the community and the government
24 What does water transform into when the pipe bursts?
A form of currency and a blessing

A killing force

A form of currency that causes strife

An angry god
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

Prayer, presence, and obedience

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