Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quizzes

Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quiz

1 From whose perspective is the poem told?
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 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
2 Describe the poem's stanzas.
Four quatrains

Three quatrains

Four stanzas of varying length

Five 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 small splash"

"the voice of a kindly god"
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

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 _"
a seed

the ground

a pipe

a pod
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 third

The first
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?
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
mug

fortune

drip

echo
11 What is onomatopoeia?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants
12 Where has Dharker specified as the setting of "Blessing"?
Daravi in Bombay

Dharavi in Mumbai

Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

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?
Pots

Light

The municipal Pipe

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

Critical, Hopeful

Joyful, Celebratory

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

Gold

Flow

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

Roar out from the pipe

Flow towards the river

Sing over the small bones of the children
18 Which of the following best alludes to how densely populated the neighborhood is?
There never is enough water.

every man woman child for streets around butts in

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun

with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets
19 Which sense does Dharker particularly engage with in this poem?
Tactile

Gustatory

Auditory

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

the sudden rush

frantic hands

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,
21 What is synecdoche?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

A word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated
22 In the poem, water is personified as a:
A lover

Deity

A fellow community member

A child
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 that causes strife

A killing force

A form of currency and a blessing

An angry god
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Prayer, presence, and obedience

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

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