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

blue

green

yellow
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”?

simile

oxymoron

anaphora

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

iambic pentameter

free verse

blank verse

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

Suriname

England

French Guiana

Guyana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

Ireland

The United Kingdom

The United States

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

sunrise

wind

a fish’s red gill

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

Live your dream

Be kind to others

Be yourself

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

sight, smell

taste, hearing

sight, hearing

touch, sight
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?

Mother's Day

speaker's birthday

mother's birthday

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

sound of leaves

flame tree's spread

fried plantain smell

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

gushing wind

mirror

moon's eye

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

fathoming

streaming

unraveling

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

second person singular

first person singular

second person plural

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured

close, comforting

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

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' mother

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

happy life

brilliant futures

long life

wide futures
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?

bold

fathoming

deep

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

rise

warm

bright

streaming
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

refreshing

nourishing

replenishing

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

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

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

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

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] 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?

villanelle

ode

sestina

epigram

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