Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

sestina

one stanza of ten lines

sonnet

villanelle
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

systrophe

dialogue

gothic

romance
3 What is the meter of the poem?

free verse

trochaic pentameter

trimeter

iambic pentameter
4 What is the poem's main purpose?

to make an argument about God's grace

to define prayer

to confuse the reader

to elaborate the qualities of God
5 Why does the speaker call prayer "the church's banquet?"

to emphasize the fact that it nourishes Christianity

to compare it to communion

to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to highlight the excesses of Catholic clergy
6 Which of the following is NOT one of prayer's definitions in this poem?

a tool

a pet

a kind of music

an instrument/engine of war
7 What is prayer a weapon against?

the end of the world

satan himself

one's enemies

sinners and the tower of Babel
8 According to the poem, which of the following does prayer recreate?

the flood

Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden

the annunciation

God's six-day creation of the world
9 Which of the following metaphors does not compare prayer to music?

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,

A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
10 Which of the following two metaphors may seem paradoxical?

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

prayer as milky way vs. prayer as bird of Paradise

prayer as church bell vs. prayer as tune
11 Why does the speaker compare prayer to the milky way?

to show that it is vast and beyond human comprehension

to show that Christians are starry-eyed

to show that it nourishes

to suggest that prayer is alien technology
12 Why might the poem lack a verb?

it may be a typesetting error

to show that prayer is difficult to define

to show that prayer has no affect

to show that prayer is not something you "do"
13 What is the poem's final definition of prayer?

something understood

the soul's blood

God's gift to man

the milky way

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