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”?

yellow

blue

red

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

metaphor

repetition

anaphora

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

anaphora

oxymoron

simile

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

blank verse

iambic pentameter

free verse

common/ballad meter
5 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

England

Guyana

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

Ireland

The United States

The United Kingdom

France
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?

Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others

Live your dream

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 herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

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 birthday

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

fried plantain smell

moon's eye

flame tree's spread

sound of leaves
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?

unraveling

streaming

fathoming

mantling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

second person plural

first person singular

first person plural

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

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' sister

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' mother
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?

fathoming

deep

cold

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

bright

warm

streaming

rise
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

nourishing

replenishing

refreshing

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

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

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

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

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

sonnet

haiku

African praise song

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

sestina

epigram

villanelle

ode

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