God's Grandeur - Multiple Choice (CXC English B)

 



God’s Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck* his rod*?

Generations have trod*, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod*.


And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs--

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.


~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 – 1889


*reck – heed, rod – his authority, power, shod – covered with shoes, trod - walk


1. The word ‘grandeur’ (line 1) most likely means

a. extravagance

b. magnificence

c. purpose

d. presence


2. The words ‘seared’, ‘bleared’ and ‘smeared’ are used to

a. show how dirty people get when they work.

b. evoke disgust from the reader.

c. pinpoint how burdened people are by their work.

d. reveal that these people are being physically abused by their employees.


3. Line 10 of the poem is used to

a. contrast man’s destructiveness and nature’s ability to renew itself.

b. illustrate that nature never gets exhausted.

c. highlight that money is never wasted on natural things.

d. reveal that nature can never be destroyed.


4. The expression ‘smeared with toil’ (line 6) is an example of

a. hyperbole

b. personification

c. metaphor

d. paradox


5. The phrase ‘have trod’ is repeated three times in line 5 to

a. show how much walking generations have done.

b. emphasize the repetitive nature of man’s labour.

c. enable the reader to remember how much work generations have done.

d. demonstrate how hardworking generations have been over the years.


6. The expressions ‘gathers to a greatness’ and ‘ooze of oil’ in line 3 are examples of

a. simile

b. personification

c. alliteration

d. onomatopoeia


7. The ‘morning’ referred to in line 12 is used to

a. show that a new day is about to begin.

b. represent the process of renewal.

c. reveal that the morning is unexpected.

d. evoke the reader’s admiration for the morning’s appearance.


8. The tone of the poem is one of

a. admiration

b. happiness

c. shock

d. passion


9. The most prominent imagery that is used in the last stanza is

a. tactile

b. auditory

c. visual

d. olfactory


10. The main purpose of the poem is to

a. highlight how determined people are when they work.

b. evoke sympathy for the hard work that generations have had to do.

c. marvel at God’s presence in the world and the revitalization he gives.

d. encourage people to convert to Christianity.


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