Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

sestina

one stanza of ten lines

sonnet

villanelle
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

gothic

romance

systrophe

dialogue
3 What is the meter of the poem?

iambic pentameter

trimeter

free verse

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

to confuse the reader

to make an argument about God's grace

to elaborate the qualities of God

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

to suggest prayer can cure starvation

to compare it to communion

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 kind of music

a pet

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

one's enemies

sinners and the tower of Babel

the end of the world

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

the annunciation

Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden

God's six-day creation of the world

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 something understood vs. prayer as a plummet

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
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?

to show that prayer has no affect

it may be a typesetting error

to show that prayer is difficult to define

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

God's gift to man

the soul's blood

the milky way

something understood

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