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 from the perspective of someone living in poverty

Someone recounting the scene of a burst water pipe in an impoverished community afflicted with drought.

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

Three quatrains

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

"The skin cracks like a pod"

"the small splash"

"silver crashes to the ground"
4 What is a metaphor?
Metaphor is a description of one thing as a different, unrelated thing

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

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 _"
a pipe

a pod

the ground

a seed
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

a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant

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.

an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe
7 Which is the shortest stanza?
The second

The fourth

The first

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

To convey the severity of drought

There is no effect

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

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
mug

drip

fortune

echo
11 What is onomatopoeia?
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

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

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"?
Dharavi in Mumbai

Daravi in Bombay

Bhalsw in Delhi

Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore
13 Is the exact setting (name of the community) specified in the poem?
Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

Yes—Daravi in Bombay

Yes—Dharavi in Mumbai

No
14 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
The municipal Pipe

Light

Water

Pots
15 What is the poem's tone?
Bitter, Bleak

Joyful, Celebratory

Critical, Hopeful

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

Gold

Silver

Blessing
17 What does the blessing do at the end of the poem?
Sing to the people gathering

Flow towards the river

Sing over the small bones of the children

Roar out from the pipe
18 Which of the following best alludes to how densely populated the neighborhood is?
every man woman child for streets around butts in

There never is enough water.

with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun
19 Which sense does Dharker particularly engage with in this poem?
Auditory

Tactile

Olfactory

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

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

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

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
22 In the poem, water is personified as a:
A child

A lover

A fellow community member

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

The importance of water

The active struggle between the community and the government

Drought
24 What does water transform into when the pipe bursts?
A form of currency that causes strife

A form of currency and a blessing

A killing force

An angry god
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Prayer, presence, and obedience

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