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Knowledge Quiz - 'Tissue'

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Summarise your understanding of the poem

4 lines
2.

What links can be made between humans and paper?

a)

Our lives are like paper.

b)

They can both be marked.

c)

Both paper and humans are made up of tissue.

d)

They can both be destroyed.

3.

What links can be made between an architect and God.

a)

Their building projects were very expensive.

b)

The materials they use for construction come from the earth.

c)

Their building projects took 6 days to complete and they rested on the seventh.

d)

They are both designers.

4.

What theme runs through the poem 'Tissue'?

a)

Guilt

b)

Reality of conflict

c)

Identity

d)

Loss and absence

5.

Besides nature, what else could light represent?.....

a)

Angels

b)

Truth

c)

Warmth

d)

God

6.

'Maps too. The sun shines through' highlight....

a)

Rays of sun

b)

Borders control mankind.

c)

Maps are transparent

d)

Our lives are mapped out before us.

7.

What form is the poem 'Tissue' written in?

a)

Free verse

b)

Sonnet

c)

Blank verse

d)

Soliliquoy

8.

'Paper' is a metaphor for....?

a)

Gender

b)

Human power.

c)

Heritage

d)

Wealth

9.

What structural device has the poet used in 'Tissue'? Why?

a)

Enjambment to mirror the ideas in the poem about the extent of human control or lack of it.

b)

Caesura to emphasise man's arrogance.

c)

Iambic pentameter to recognise those of high culture and position in society.

d)

Cyclical for a humorous effect

10.

'light' symbolizes?... Choose two answers.

a)

Truth

b)

nature

c)

people

d)

wind

11.

'Tissue' is from Dharker's collection 'Terrorist at my table' - how does this link to the idea of layers in people's characters?

4 lines
12.

'Fly our lives like paper kites' is an example of what poetic technique?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Personification

13.

In what ways might money be said to control our lives? (Tick all that apply)

a)

Makes us happy

b)

Provides the ability to travel

c)

Helps us to fulfil our basic needs

d)

Debt can dominate people's lives