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

yellow

green

blue
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

oxymoron

rhyme

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

common/ballad meter

blank verse

iambic pentameter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

England

Guyana

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United Kingdom

Ireland

France

The United States
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?

sunrise

wind

water

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

Be kind to others

Live your dream

Go to your wide futures

Be yourself
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 her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares herself 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

moon's eye

sound of leaves

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

mirror

gushing wind

moon's eye

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

mantling

streaming

unraveling

fathoming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

second person singular

first person singular

first person plural

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
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?

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols' mother

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

long life

happy life

wide futures

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

bold

cold

deep

fathoming
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?

replenishing

streaming

nourishing

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

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

You are / [ ] 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?

sonnet

haiku

ballad

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

villanelle

sestina

epigram

ode

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