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”?

repetition

metaphor

anaphora

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

simile

rhyme

oxymoron

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

iambic pentameter

blank verse

free verse

common/ballad meter
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

French Guiana

England

Guyana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

Ireland

France

The United Kingdom

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

a fish’s red gill

water

sunrise

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

Be yourself

Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others

Live your dream
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?

sight, smell

sight, hearing

touch, sight

taste, hearing
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 water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?

speaker's birthday

mother's birthday

Mother's Day

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

flame tree's spread

moon's eye

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?

gushing wind

snake

mirror

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

streaming

unraveling

fathoming

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

second person singular

first person plural

first person singular

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

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

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

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured

close, comforting
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

brilliant futures

long life

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

fathoming

cold

deep

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?

refreshing

replenishing

streaming

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

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

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

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

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

African praise song

ballad

haiku

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

ode

villanelle

sestina

epigram

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