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

red

blue

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

simile

anaphora

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

oxymoron

rhyme

simile
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?
French Guiana

Suriname

Guyana

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United Kingdom

Ireland

The United States

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

sunrise

water

a fish’s red gill
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Be kind to others

Be yourself

Go to your wide futures

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

sight, hearing

sight, smell

touch, sight
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?
the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares herself to water

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 Day

mother's birthday

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

flame tree's spread

sound of leaves

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

moon's eye

snake

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

unraveling

streaming

fathoming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
first person singular

first person plural

second person plural

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

close, comforting

traumatic, upsetting

friendly, easy
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols

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

happy life

brilliant futures

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

bold

deep

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

warm

rise

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

replenishing

refreshing

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

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

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

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

sonnet

haiku

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

epigram

ode

villanelle

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