1 What was the name of Warsan Shire's first poetry collection? Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Extreme Girlhood Her Blue Body Lemonade 2 Where was Warsan Shire born? America England Kenya Somalia 3 Which of these themes is "The House" NOT about? Memory Sexual abuse Love Migration 4 What happens to the character Johnny in "The House"? He sneaks into the speaker's house and ends up chained in the basement He calls God through the window but receives no answer He wakes up in a bathtub full of ice He breaks into the basement of dreams 5 Which of Warsan Shire's poems went viral first? Backwards The House For Women Who are Difficult to Love River of Milk 6 What is the name of Warsan Shire's audio-poetry album on Bandcamp? Lemonade warsan versus melancholy Her Blue Body The House 7 Warsan Shire was the Younger Poet Laureate of... London Mogadishu Los Angeles Nairobi 8 Shire edits which magazine...? Diode SPOOK Ebony Honeysuckle 9 Shire is often called a voice for... Christianity Radicalism Pacifism Diaspora 10 From where does "The House" get its title? From something the speaker's mother said From something the speaker's first love said From something the speaker thought of From something the speaker's father said 11 "The House" uses what form to separate its stanzas? Roman numerals Letters Bullet points Numbers 12 The sentence "Nin soo joog laga waayo, soo jiifso aa laga helaa" is in what language? Somali Afrikaans Xhosa Zulu 13 What is an example of a motif in "The House"? The kitchen of lust The apple The jam jar The house 14 The phrase "new, neat procedure" is likely referring to... A murder A birth Castration A sex change 15 Near the end of the poem the speaker is questioned by whom... A true love A social worker A police officer A teacher 16 Which is an example of a motif in "The House"? Johnny's bottle of bleach The bathtub The narrator's mother's warnings The house as a feminine body 17 What is one of Warsan Shire's main poetic subjects? The trappings of ambition Queerness and gender identification Diaspora and displacement The American dream 18 What is the function of humor in "The House"? It represents the narrator's desire to connect with others It manages the darkness of what the narrator is saying It is a way of making other people laugh It adds lightness to contrast the poem's heaviness 19 Warsan Shire's poetry was featured in which of these in 2016? Beyoncé's Lemonade Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer The Museum of Modern Art The Nuyorican's slam poetry finals 20 Warsan Shire was born in what year? 1988 1963 1997 1984
