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”?

yellow

red

green

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

metaphor

repetition

anaphora

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

simile

anaphora

rhyme

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

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter

free verse

blank verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

Guyana

French Guiana

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

Ireland

The United Kingdom

France

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

wind

a fish’s red gill

water

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

Be yourself

Go to your wide futures

Live your dream

Be kind to others
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?

taste, hearing

sight, smell

touch, sight

sight, hearing
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

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread

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

moon's eye

snake

gushing wind

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

fathoming

unraveling

mantling

streaming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person singular

second person singular

first person plural

second person plural
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

distant, fractured

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting

close, comforting
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."

brilliant futures

long life

happy life

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

cold

deep

bold

fathoming
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.

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

African praise song

haiku

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

epigram

sestina

ode

villanelle

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