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”?

simile

metaphor

repetition

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

anaphora

rhyme

simile

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

blank verse

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

French Guiana

Guyana

England

Suriname
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

The United Kingdom

Ireland

France
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?

Live your dream

Go to your wide futures

Be yourself

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

sight, hearing

sight, smell

taste, hearing

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

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to water

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

Mother's Day

speaker's birthday

mother's death

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

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread

moon's eye
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?

moon's eye

gushing wind

snake

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

streaming

unraveling

mantling

fathoming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person singular

second person plural

second person singular

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

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured

friendly, easy
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols' sister

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

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

long life

happy life

wide futures

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

deep

fathoming

bold

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

rise

warm

streaming

bright
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

nourishing

replenishing

streaming

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 us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

African praise song

sonnet

ballad

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

sestina

ode

villanelle

epigram

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