Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quizzes

Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quiz

1 From whose perspective is the poem told?
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 from the perspective of someone living in poverty

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

Five stanzas of varying length

Four stanzas of varying length

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

"The skin cracks like a pod"

"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

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"

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession
5 Finish this quote: "The skin cracks like _"
a pipe

a pod

a seed

the ground
6 Define "pod" as used in the poem.
an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe

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
7 Which is the shortest stanza?
The first

The third

The fourth

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

To demonstrate a bursting pipe

To convey the severity of drought

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

Iambic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
drip

fortune

echo

mug
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"?
Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

Daravi in Bombay

Bhalsw in Delhi

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

Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

Yes—Dharavi in Mumbai

No
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?
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

Roar out from the pipe

Flow towards the river

Sing to the people gathering
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

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?
Olfactory

Auditory

Tactile

Gustatory
20 Which is a synecdoche?
and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,

The skin cracks like a pod.

frantic hands

the sudden rush
21 What is synecdoche?
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

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 child

Deity

A fellow community member

A lover
23 Which of the following is NOT an explicit theme in the poem?
Drought

The presence of children

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

An angry god

A killing force

A form of currency and a blessing
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Prayer, presence, and obedience

Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

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