Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?
villanelle

one stanza of ten lines

sonnet

sestina
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?
gothic

dialogue

systrophe

romance
3 What is the meter of the poem?
trochaic pentameter

iambic pentameter

free verse

trimeter
4 What is the poem's main purpose?
to elaborate the qualities of God

to make an argument about God's grace

to confuse the reader

to define prayer
5 Why does the speaker call prayer "the church's banquet?"
to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to highlight the excesses of Catholic clergy

to emphasize the fact that it nourishes Christianity

to compare it to communion
6 Which of the following is NOT one of prayer's definitions in this poem?
a kind of music

a tool

a pet

an instrument/engine of war
7 What is prayer a weapon against?
sinners and the tower of Babel

satan himself

the end of the world

one's enemies
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 flood

the annunciation
9 Which of the following metaphors does not compare prayer to music?
Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;

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

The six-days world transposing in an hour,
10 Which of the following two metaphors may seem paradoxical?
prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

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 nourishes

to suggest that prayer is alien technology

to show that Christians are starry-eyed

to show that it is vast and beyond human comprehension
12 Why might the poem lack a verb?
to show that prayer is difficult to define

to show that prayer has no affect

to show that prayer is not something you "do"

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

God's gift to man

the soul's blood

something understood

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