Praise Song for My Mother Quizzes

Praise Song for My Mother Quiz on “Praise Song for my Mother"

1 What color is most prominent within the last stanza of “Praise Song for my Mother”?
green

blue

red

yellow
2 What rhetorical device is NOT used within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
repetition

metaphor

simile

anaphora
3 What rhetorical device is used within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
rhyme

oxymoron

anaphora

simile
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
blank verse

common/ballad meter

free verse

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?
England

French Guiana

Suriname

Guyana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

Ireland

The United Kingdom

The United States
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?
water

wind

sunrise

a fish’s red gill
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Live your dream

Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others

Be yourself
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?
taste, hearing

sight, smell

touch, sight

sight, hearing
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?
the speaker compares her mother to water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares herself to water
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?
mother's death

mother's birthday

speaker's birthday

Mother's Day
12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother?
flame tree's spread

fried plantain smell

moon's eye

sound of leaves
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?
mirror

gushing wind

moon's eye

snake
14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?
fathoming

unraveling

mantling

streaming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
first person plural

second person plural

first person singular

second person singular
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker
traumatic, upsetting

friendly, easy

distant, fractured

close, comforting
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols' mother
19 Fill in the blank: "Go to your ___ ______, you said."
brilliant futures

long life

wide futures

happy life
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
fathoming

deep

cold

bold
21 Which word is NOT attributed to sunrise in the third stanza?
warm

bright

streaming

rise
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?
streaming

nourishing

replenishing

refreshing
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.
You are / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]
24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem?
ballad

African praise song

sonnet

haiku
25 What is another word for this poem's genre?
sestina

epigram

ode

villanelle

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