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”?

repetition

simile

metaphor

anaphora
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”?

common/ballad meter

free verse

blank verse

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?

French Guiana

Suriname

Guyana

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

The United Kingdom

France

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

wind

water

a fish’s red gill

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

Live your dream

Go to your wide futures

Be yourself

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

sight, smell

touch, sight

sight, hearing

taste, 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 the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to water
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

flame tree's spread

moon's eye

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

snake

moon's eye

gushing wind

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

fathoming

unraveling

streaming

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person singular

first person plural

second person plural

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

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
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' mother

Grace Nichols' sister

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

long life

wide futures

brilliant futures

happy life
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?

fathoming

bold

deep

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

rise

streaming

warm

bright
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

refreshing

streaming

replenishing

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

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

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

You were / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]
24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem?

African praise song

ballad

sonnet

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

epigram

ode

sestina

villanelle

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