Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

villanelle

sestina

sonnet

one stanza of ten lines
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

dialogue

gothic

systrophe

romance
3 What is the meter of the poem?

iambic pentameter

free verse

trimeter

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

to confuse the reader

to elaborate the qualities of God

to make an argument about God's grace

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

to compare it to communion

to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to highlight the excesses of Catholic clergy

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

a kind of music

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

satan himself

sinners and the tower of Babel

one's enemies

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

God's six-day creation of the world

Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden

the annunciation

the flood
9 Which of the following metaphors does not compare prayer to music?

Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,

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

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
10 Which of the following two metaphors may seem paradoxical?

prayer as church bell vs. prayer as tune

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

prayer as milky way vs. prayer as bird of Paradise
11 Why does the speaker compare prayer to the milky way?

to show that it nourishes

to suggest that prayer is alien technology

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?

the milky way

God's gift to man

the soul's blood

something understood

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