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

yellow

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

anaphora

repetition

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

simile

anaphora

oxymoron
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
blank verse

common/ballad meter

free verse

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

Guyana

England

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

Ireland

The United States

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

wind

a fish’s red gill

water
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Be kind to others

Go to your wide futures

Be yourself

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

sight, smell

sight, hearing

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

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to water
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?
mother's death

speaker's birthday

mother's birthday

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

moon's eye

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?
snake

moon's eye

gushing wind

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

fathoming

mantling

unraveling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
second person plural

first person singular

second person singular

first person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker
close, comforting

friendly, easy

distant, fractured

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' mother

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

wide futures

brilliant futures

happy life
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
cold

fathoming

deep

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

rise

warm

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

streaming

nourishing

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

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

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

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

sonnet

haiku

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

ode

sestina

epigram

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