Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

one stanza of ten lines

sestina

sonnet

villanelle
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

romance

gothic

dialogue

systrophe
3 What is the meter of the poem?

free verse

iambic pentameter

trochaic pentameter

trimeter
4 What is the poem's main purpose?

to confuse the reader

to define prayer

to make an argument about God's grace

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 pet

a tool

an instrument/engine of war

a kind of music
7 What is prayer a weapon against?

one's enemies

the end of the world

satan himself

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

God's six-day creation of the world

Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden

the annunciation

the flood
9 Which of the following metaphors does not compare prayer to music?

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

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

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

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

prayer as milky way vs. prayer as bird of Paradise

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

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?

to show that prayer has no affect

to show that prayer is not something you "do"

to show that prayer is difficult to define

it may be a typesetting error
13 What is the poem's final definition of prayer?

God's gift to man

something understood

the milky way

the soul's blood

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