Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quizzes

Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quiz

1 From whose perspective is the poem told?
First-person perspective of an adult recounting the instance of a burst municipal pipe when they were a child

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.
2 Describe the poem's stanzas.
Four quatrains

Three quatrains

Five stanzas of varying length

Four stanzas of varying length
3 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor or simile?
"The skin cracks like a pod"

"silver crashes to the ground"

"the voice of a kindly god"

"the small splash"
4 What is a metaphor?
Metaphor is a description of one thing as a different, unrelated thing

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

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 seed

a pod

the ground
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

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

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 third

The second

The fourth

The first
8 What is the effect of the shortest stanza?
There is no effect

To demonstrate a bursting pipe

To show an outpouring of water

To convey the severity of drought
9 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic trimeter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
drip

mug

fortune

echo
11 What is onomatopoeia?
A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"

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
12 Where has Dharker specified as the setting of "Blessing"?
Bhalsw in Delhi

Daravi in Bombay

Dharavi in Mumbai

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

No

Yes—Daravi in Bombay

Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore
14 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
Water

The municipal Pipe

Pots

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

Pensive, Happy

Bitter, Bleak

Critical, Hopeful
16 What word is NOT used to describe water?
Flow

Silver

Gold

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

Flow towards the river

Sing to the people gathering

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

with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets

There never is enough water.

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

Auditory

Gustatory

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

the sudden rush

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,

frantic hands
21 What is synecdoche?
A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

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.
22 In the poem, water is personified as a:
A fellow community member

A child

Deity

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

Drought

The presence of children

The importance of water
24 What does water transform into when the pipe bursts?
A form of currency and a blessing

An angry god

A killing force

A form of currency that causes strife
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Prayer, presence, and obedience

Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

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