Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quizzes

Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quiz

1 From whose perspective is the poem told?
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

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
2 Describe the poem's stanzas.
Four stanzas of varying length

Three quatrains

Five stanzas of varying length

Four quatrains
3 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor or simile?
"silver crashes to the ground"

"the small splash"

"the voice of a kindly god"

"The skin cracks like a pod"
4 What is a metaphor?
Metaphor is a description of one thing as a different, unrelated thing

Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"

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

A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning
5 Finish this quote: "The skin cracks like _"
the ground

a pod

a seed

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 third

The fourth

The second

The first
8 What is the effect of the shortest stanza?
To show an outpouring of water

There is no effect

To convey the severity of drought

To demonstrate a bursting pipe
9 What is the poem's meter?
Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
fortune

mug

drip

echo
11 What is onomatopoeia?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"
12 Where has Dharker specified as the setting of "Blessing"?
Daravi in Bombay

Bhalsw in Delhi

Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

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

Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

No

Yes—Daravi in Bombay
14 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
Water

Pots

The municipal Pipe

Light
15 What is the poem's tone?
Joyful, Celebratory

Critical, Hopeful

Pensive, Happy

Bitter, Bleak
16 What word is NOT used to describe water?
Gold

Blessing

Flow

Silver
17 What does the blessing do at the end of the poem?
Sing over the small bones of the children

Flow towards the river

Roar out from the pipe

Sing to the people gathering
18 Which of the following best alludes to how densely populated the neighborhood is?
There never is enough water.

with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun

every man woman child for streets around butts in
19 Which sense does Dharker particularly engage with in this poem?
Tactile

Olfactory

Auditory

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

frantic hands

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,

the sudden rush
21 What is synecdoche?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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

A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning.

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

A fellow community member

A child

A lover
23 Which of the following is NOT an explicit theme in the poem?
The active struggle between the community and the government

The importance of water

The presence of children

Drought
24 What does water transform into when the pipe bursts?
An angry god

A form of currency that causes strife

A form of currency and a blessing

A killing force
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Prayer, presence, and obedience

Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

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