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.
Three quatrains

Four stanzas of varying length

Five stanzas of varying length

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

"the voice of a kindly god"

"silver crashes to the ground"

"the small splash"
4 What is a metaphor?
The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession

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"

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 seed

a pod

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

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

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.
7 Which is the shortest stanza?
The fourth

The second

The first

The third
8 What is the effect of the shortest stanza?
To convey the severity of drought

To demonstrate a bursting pipe

There is no effect

To show an outpouring of water
9 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse

Iambic pentameter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
echo

mug

fortune

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

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

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"?
Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

Dharavi in Mumbai

Daravi in Bombay

Bhalsw in Delhi
13 Is the exact setting (name of the community) specified in the poem?
No

Yes—Daravi in Bombay

Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

Yes—Dharavi in Mumbai
14 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
The municipal Pipe

Water

Pots

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

Critical, Hopeful

Bitter, Bleak

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

Gold

Flow

Silver
17 What does the blessing do at the end of the poem?
Roar out from the pipe

Flow towards the river

Sing over the small bones of the children

Sing to the people gathering
18 Which of the following best alludes to how densely populated the neighborhood is?
with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets

every man woman child for streets around butts in

There never is enough water.

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 sudden rush

frantic hands

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,

The skin cracks like a pod.
21 What is synecdoche?
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

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.
22 In the poem, water is personified as a:
Deity

A fellow community member

A lover

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

Drought

The importance of water

The active struggle between the community and the government
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?
Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Prayer, presence, and obedience

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

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