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”?

blue

yellow

red

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

simile

metaphor

anaphora

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

simile

oxymoron

anaphora

rhyme
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?

common/ballad meter

free verse

blank verse

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

France

The United States

Ireland

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

sunrise

wind

a fish’s red gill

water
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, hearing

touch, sight

sight, smell
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to water
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?

speaker's birthday

mother's death

mother's birthday

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

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread

moon's eye

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

snake

moon's eye

gushing wind

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

streaming

fathoming

unraveling

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

second person plural

first person singular

second person singular

first person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker

distant, fractured

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting

close, comforting
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols' sister

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

brilliant futures

long life

happy life

wide futures
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?

cold

deep

fathoming

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

streaming

warm

bright

rise
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

streaming

nourishing

refreshing

replenishing
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.

You are / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]
24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem?

ballad

haiku

sonnet

African praise song
25 What is another word for this poem's genre?

villanelle

sestina

epigram

ode

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