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

green

red

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

simile

metaphor

anaphora

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

simile

rhyme

oxymoron

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

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter

blank verse

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

French Guiana

England

Guyana
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?

water

wind

sunrise

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?

sight, smell

taste, hearing

sight, hearing

touch, sight
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?

the speaker compares her mother to water

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?

Mother's Day

mother's birthday

mother's death

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

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell

moon's eye

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

mirror

moon's eye

snake

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

streaming

fathoming

unraveling

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

second person singular

second person plural

first person singular

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker

traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured

friendly, easy

close, comforting
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

long life

brilliant futures

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

deep

bold

cold

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

warm

bright

rise

streaming
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

streaming

refreshing

nourishing

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

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

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

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

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

haiku

African praise song

ballad

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

epigram

villanelle

sestina

ode

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