Prayer (I) Quizzes

Prayer (I) Quiz

1 What is the form of the poem?

sestina

one stanza of ten lines

villanelle

sonnet
2 From what genre does the poem take inspiration?

gothic

romance

dialogue

systrophe
3 What is the meter of the poem?

iambic pentameter

trochaic 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 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 pet

an instrument/engine of war

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

the end of the world

one's enemies

satan himself

sinners and the tower of Babel
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?

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

The six-days world transposing in an hour,

Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
10 Which of the following two metaphors may seem paradoxical?

prayer as peace vs. prayer as joy

prayer as church bell vs. prayer as tune

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 is vast and beyond human comprehension

to show that Christians are starry-eyed

to show that it nourishes

to suggest that prayer is alien technology
12 Why might the poem lack a verb?

to show that prayer is not something you "do"

to show that prayer is difficult to define

to show that prayer has no affect

it may be a typesetting error
13 What is the poem's final definition of prayer?

something understood

God's gift to man

the milky way

the soul's blood

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