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

yellow

blue

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

simile

repetition

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

simile

rhyme

oxymoron
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?
Guyana

French Guiana

England

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

Ireland

France

The United Kingdom
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?
a fish’s red gill

wind

water

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

Be kind to others

Go to your wide futures

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

sight, 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 her mother to water

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye
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?
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

gushing wind

snake

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

unraveling

fathoming

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

first person plural

second person singular

second 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
close, comforting

distant, fractured

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' sister

Grace Nichols

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

brilliant futures

happy life

wide futures
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
bold

fathoming

cold

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

warm

rise

streaming
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?
nourishing

replenishing

streaming

refreshing
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.
I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

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

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

haiku

African praise song

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

villanelle

sestina

epigram

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