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”?
green

blue

red

yellow
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

oxymoron

anaphora

rhyme
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
iambic pentameter

common/ballad meter

blank verse

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?
England

Guyana

French Guiana

Suriname
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United States

The United Kingdom

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

sunrise

water

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

Be kind to others

Go to your wide futures

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

touch, sight

taste, hearing

sight, hearing
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?
the speaker compares herself to water

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
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?
mother's death

Mother's Day

speaker's birthday

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

moon's eye

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

mantling

unraveling

streaming
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 Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold 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?
Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols' mother

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

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

happy life

wide futures

long 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?
warm

streaming

rise

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

nourishing

streaming

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

ballad

African praise song

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

sestina

villanelle

ode

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