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

yellow

blue

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

repetition

anaphora

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

rhyme

oxymoron

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

blank verse

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?
Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United States

The United Kingdom

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

water

sunrise

a fish’s red gill
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others

Be yourself

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 her mother to water

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

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 Day

mother's death

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

sound of leaves

flame tree's spread

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

mirror

gushing wind

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

mantling

unraveling

streaming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
first person plural

first person singular

second person singular

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

close, comforting

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting
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."
long life

happy life

brilliant futures

wide futures
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?
warm

rise

bright

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

streaming

nourishing

replenishing
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.
You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

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

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

haiku

ballad

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

villanelle

sestina

ode

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