Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quizzes

Blessing (Imtiaz Dharker poem) Quiz

1 From whose perspective is the poem told?
Someone recounting the scene of a burst water pipe in an impoverished community afflicted with drought.

First-person perspective from the perspective of someone living in poverty

First-person perspective of an adult recounting the instance of a burst municipal pipe when they were a child

First-person perspective of a woman gathering water from a burst municipal pipe
2 Describe the poem's stanzas.
Four quatrains

Three quatrains

Four stanzas of varying length

Five stanzas of varying length
3 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor or simile?
"silver crashes to the ground"

"The skin cracks like a pod"

"the voice of a kindly god"

"the small splash"
4 What is a metaphor?
The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession

A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning

Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"

Metaphor is a description of one thing as a different, unrelated thing
5 Finish this quote: "The skin cracks like _"
a pod

the ground

a seed

a pipe
6 Define "pod" as used in the poem.
an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe

a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function

the part of a plant that attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers.

a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant
7 Which is the shortest stanza?
The first

The third

The second

The fourth
8 What is the effect of the shortest stanza?
To convey the severity of drought

To demonstrate a bursting pipe

To show an outpouring of water

There is no effect
9 What is the poem's meter?
Free verse

Iambic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
10 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
echo

drip

fortune

mug
11 What is onomatopoeia?
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as"
12 Where has Dharker specified as the setting of "Blessing"?
Bhalsw in Delhi

Dharavi in Mumbai

Daravi in Bombay

Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore
13 Is the exact setting (name of the community) specified in the poem?
Yes—Rajendra Nagar in Bangalore

No

Yes—Daravi in Bombay

Yes—Dharavi in Mumbai
14 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
The municipal Pipe

Pots

Light

Water
15 What is the poem's tone?
Critical, Hopeful

Pensive, Happy

Bitter, Bleak

Joyful, Celebratory
16 What word is NOT used to describe water?
Blessing

Flow

Gold

Silver
17 What does the blessing do at the end of the poem?
Roar out from the pipe

Sing to the people gathering

Flow towards the river

Sing over the small bones of the children
18 Which of the following best alludes to how densely populated the neighborhood is?
with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun

There never is enough water.

every man woman child for streets around butts in
19 Which sense does Dharker particularly engage with in this poem?
Tactile

Auditory

Gustatory

Olfactory
20 Which is a synecdoche?
The skin cracks like a pod.

the sudden rush

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun,

frantic hands
21 What is synecdoche?
A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning.

A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

A word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
22 In the poem, water is personified as a:
A child

A fellow community member

A lover

Deity
23 Which of the following is NOT an explicit theme in the poem?
The presence of children

The active struggle between the community and the government

The importance of water

Drought
24 What does water transform into when the pipe bursts?
A form of currency and a blessing

A killing force

An angry god

A form of currency that causes strife
25 What do the children reveal as being necessary to life?
Enjoyment, gratitude, and play

Resilience, street smarts, and enjoyment

Prayer, presence, and obedience

Gratitude, solemnity, and prayer

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