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”?

repetition

anaphora

simile

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

rhyme

oxymoron

anaphora

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

iambic pentameter

free verse

blank verse

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

England

Suriname

Guyana

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

France

The United Kingdom

The United States

Ireland
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?

sunrise

a fish’s red gill

wind

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

Be kind to others

Go to your wide futures

Live your dream

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

sight, hearing

touch, sight

taste, 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 a sunrise

the speaker compares her mother to water

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

sound of leaves

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread

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

gushing wind

mirror

snake

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

unraveling

mantling

streaming

fathoming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?

first person plural

first person singular

second person singular

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
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?

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols' sister
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?

deep

bold

fathoming

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

streaming

warm

rise

bright
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?

nourishing

streaming

replenishing

refreshing
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?

ballad

African praise song

sonnet

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

epigram

sestina

villanelle

ode

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