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

green

red

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

repetition

anaphora

simile

metaphor
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

free verse

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

Guyana

French Guiana

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

Ireland

The United Kingdom

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

sunrise

water

a fish’s red gill

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

Be kind to others

Be yourself

Live your dream

Go to your wide futures
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?

sight, hearing

sight, smell

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?

mother's death

speaker's birthday

Mother's Day

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

fried plantain smell

moon's eye

sound of leaves

flame tree's spread
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?

mirror

moon's eye

gushing wind

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

streaming

unraveling

fathoming

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person plural

second person singular

second person plural

first 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

close, comforting

traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured

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

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols' mother

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

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

happy life

wide futures

brilliant futures

long life
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?

warm

rise

streaming

bright
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

nourishing

refreshing

streaming

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

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

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

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

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] 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?

ode

villanelle

epigram

sestina

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