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”?

yellow

blue

red

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

simile

repetition

metaphor

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

simile

rhyme

anaphora

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

free verse

common/ballad meter

blank verse

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Guyana

England

Suriname

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

France

The United Kingdom

Ireland
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?

a fish’s red gill

water

wind

sunrise
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?

Go to your wide futures

Be yourself

Live your dream

Be kind to others
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?

taste, hearing

touch, sight

sight, hearing

sight, smell
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

Mother's Day

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

moon's eye

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?

gushing wind

mirror

snake

moon's eye
14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?

mantling

unraveling

fathoming

streaming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person singular

second person singular

first person plural

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

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

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

close, comforting

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' sister

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed
19 Fill in the blank: "Go to your ___ ______, you said."

wide futures

long life

brilliant 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?

rise

bright

warm

streaming
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

nourishing

streaming

replenishing

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

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

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

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

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

haiku

sonnet

ballad

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

ode

villanelle

epigram

sestina

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