Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?
sestina

sonnet

one stanza of ten lines

villanelle
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?
systrophe

romance

gothic

dialogue
3 What is the meter of the poem?
trochaic pentameter

iambic pentameter

trimeter

free verse
4 What is the poem's main purpose?
to elaborate the qualities of God

to make an argument about God's grace

to define prayer

to confuse the reader
5 Why does the speaker call prayer "the church's banquet?"
to emphasize the fact that it nourishes Christianity

to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to compare it to communion

to highlight the excesses of Catholic clergy
6 Which of the following is NOT one of prayer's definitions in this poem?
an instrument/engine of war

a tool

a kind of music

a pet
7 What is prayer a weapon against?
sinners and the tower of Babel

satan himself

one's enemies

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

the flood

Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden

God's six-day creation of the world
9 Which of the following metaphors does not compare prayer to music?
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

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

The six-days world transposing in an hour,
10 Which of the following two metaphors may seem paradoxical?
prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as church bell vs. prayer as tune

prayer as milky way vs. prayer as bird of Paradise
11 Why does the speaker compare prayer to the milky way?
to show that Christians are starry-eyed

to show that it is vast and beyond human comprehension

to suggest that prayer is alien technology

to show that it nourishes
12 Why might the poem lack a verb?
to show that prayer is difficult to define

to show that prayer has no affect

it may be a typesetting error

to show that prayer is not something you "do"
13 What is the poem's final definition of prayer?
the soul's blood

something understood

God's gift to man

the milky way

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