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”?

red

green

blue

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

metaphor

repetition

anaphora

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

oxymoron

anaphora

rhyme

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

free verse

iambic pentameter

common/ballad meter

blank verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

England

Guyana

French Guiana

Suriname
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United Kingdom

The United States

France

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

sunrise

water

wind

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

Be yourself

Go to your wide futures

Live your dream

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

sight, smell

taste, hearing

touch, sight

sight, hearing
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 herself to water

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

speaker's birthday

Mother's Day

mother's death

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

flame tree's spread

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell

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

mirror

moon's eye

snake

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

unraveling

mantling

fathoming

streaming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person plural

first person singular

second person plural

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

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

traumatic, upsetting

friendly, easy

close, comforting

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

Grace Nichols

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols' sister
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?

bold

deep

fathoming

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?

streaming

refreshing

replenishing

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

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

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

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

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

sonnet

African praise song

haiku

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

epigram

sestina

ode

villanelle

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