Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

villanelle

one stanza of ten lines

sestina

sonnet
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

gothic

systrophe

dialogue

romance
3 What is the meter of the poem?

trochaic pentameter

trimeter

free verse

iambic pentameter
4 What is the poem's main purpose?

to confuse the reader

to define prayer

to elaborate the qualities of God

to make an argument about God's grace
5 Why does the speaker call prayer "the church's banquet?"

to emphasize the fact that it nourishes Christianity

to highlight the excesses of Catholic clergy

to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to compare it to communion
6 Which of the following is NOT one of prayer's definitions in this poem?

a tool

a kind of music

a pet

an instrument/engine of war
7 What is prayer a weapon against?

one's enemies

the end of the world

sinners and the tower of Babel

satan himself
8 According to the poem, which of the following does prayer recreate?

God's six-day creation of the world

the flood

the annunciation

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

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

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

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

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

prayer as church bell vs. prayer as tune

prayer as milky way vs. prayer as bird of Paradise

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet
11 Why does the speaker compare prayer to the milky way?

to suggest that prayer is alien technology

to show that it nourishes

to show that Christians are starry-eyed

to show that it is vast and beyond human comprehension
12 Why might the poem lack a verb?

it may be a typesetting error

to show that prayer is difficult to define

to show that prayer is not something you "do"

to show that prayer has no affect
13 What is the poem's final definition of prayer?

something understood

the milky way

the soul's blood

God's gift to man

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