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”?
metaphor

anaphora

simile

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

anaphora

simile

oxymoron
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
blank verse

iambic pentameter

common/ballad meter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

England

Guyana

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United Kingdom

Ireland

The United States
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 kind to others

Be yourself

Live your dream

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

sight, hearing

touch, sight

sight, smell
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?
the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to water

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?
moon's eye

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread

sound of leaves
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?
snake

moon's eye

mirror

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

mantling

fathoming

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

second person singular

first person singular

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

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

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

friendly, easy

distant, fractured

traumatic, upsetting
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols' mother

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

happy life

long life

brilliant 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

streaming

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

replenishing

nourishing

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

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

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

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]
24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem?
African praise song

ballad

haiku

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

epigram

ode

sestina

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