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

green

yellow

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

metaphor

repetition

simile

anaphora
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”?

blank verse

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

French Guiana

England

Guyana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

France

Ireland

The United Kingdom

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

water

sunrise

wind

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

Be kind to others

Go to your wide futures

Be yourself

Live your dream
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?

touch, sight

sight, smell

sight, hearing

taste, hearing
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares herself to water

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

speaker's birthday

mother's death

Mother's Day

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

moon's eye

sound of leaves

flame tree's spread

fried plantain smell
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?

mirror

snake

gushing wind

moon's eye
14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?

fathoming

streaming

mantling

unraveling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person singular

second person plural

second person singular

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

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

close, comforting

distant, fractured

friendly, easy

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

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' mother

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

wide futures

brilliant futures

happy life

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

bold

cold

fathoming

deep
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?

replenishing

refreshing

nourishing

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

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

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

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

You are / [ ] 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?

villanelle

ode

sestina

epigram

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