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

yellow

red

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

metaphor

simile

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

anaphora

oxymoron

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

blank verse

common/ballad meter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

England

French Guiana

Guyana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United States

France

Ireland

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

a fish’s red gill

sunrise

water
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Go to your wide futures

Live your dream

Be kind to others

Be yourself
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?
sight, hearing

taste, hearing

sight, smell

touch, sight
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?
the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares herself to water

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 birthday

Mother's Day

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?
moon's eye

mirror

gushing wind

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

fathoming

streaming

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
first person singular

second person singular

second person plural

first person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold 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?
Grace Nichols' sister

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols

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

happy life

long life

brilliant 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?
streaming

nourishing

replenishing

refreshing
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.
You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

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

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

ballad

sonnet

African praise song
25 What is another word for this poem's genre?
villanelle

epigram

ode

sestina

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