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”?

anaphora

simile

metaphor

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”?

free verse

iambic pentameter

common/ballad meter

blank verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

England

Guyana

French Guiana
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?

wind

water

a fish’s red gill

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

Be yourself

Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others

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

touch, sight

taste, hearing

sight, hearing

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

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to water

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

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?

flame tree's spread

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell

moon's eye
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?

mirror

moon's eye

gushing wind

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

mantling

fathoming

streaming

unraveling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person singular

second person singular

first person plural

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

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

friendly, easy

distant, fractured

close, comforting

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

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' sister

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed
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?

cold

fathoming

bold

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

rise

warm

streaming

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 [ ]

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

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

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

African praise song

haiku

sonnet

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

ode

epigram

villanelle

sestina

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