Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

sestina

villanelle

one stanza of ten lines

sonnet
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

romance

gothic

systrophe

dialogue
3 What is the meter of the poem?

free verse

iambic pentameter

trochaic pentameter

trimeter
4 What is the poem's main purpose?

to elaborate the qualities of God

to define prayer

to make an argument about God's grace

to confuse the reader
5 Why does the speaker call prayer "the church's banquet?"

to highlight the excesses of Catholic clergy

to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to compare it to communion

to emphasize the fact that it nourishes Christianity
6 Which of the following is NOT one of prayer's definitions in this poem?

a tool

a pet

an instrument/engine of war

a kind of music
7 What is prayer a weapon against?

satan himself

one's enemies

sinners and the tower of Babel

the end of the world
8 According to the poem, which of the following does prayer recreate?

the flood

God's six-day creation of the world

the annunciation

Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden
9 Which of the following metaphors does not compare prayer to music?

A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
10 Which of the following two metaphors may seem paradoxical?

prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

prayer as milky way vs. prayer as bird of Paradise

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as church bell vs. prayer as tune
11 Why does the speaker compare prayer to the milky way?

to show that it is vast and beyond human comprehension

to suggest that prayer is alien technology

to show that it nourishes

to show that Christians are starry-eyed
12 Why might the poem lack a verb?

to show that prayer has no affect

to show that prayer is not something you "do"

it may be a typesetting error

to show that prayer is difficult to define
13 What is the poem's final definition of prayer?

the milky way

the soul's blood

God's gift to man

something understood

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