Home (Warsan Shire poem) Quizzes

Home (Warsan Shire poem) Quiz

1 Who is the speaker in "Home"?
A Somali migrant who Shire met in London

A combination of migrant voices

Warsan Shire herself

The voice of a 20th century immigrant coming to America
2 What stereotypical belief is Shire arguing against with the first stanza?
The belief that migrants come to new countries to take advantage of resources and to steal jobs

The belief that migrants caused the destruction of their homelands

The belief that all migrants are uncivilized

The belief that human rights crises in the Middle East are fabricated
3 What happened to the boy that the speaker kissed when she was younger?
He fled the country

He held a gun to her neck

He became a soldier

He was killed
4 Why might the speaker have been tearing up her passport in an airport bathroom?
She wanted to forget that she ever lived in her native country

She needed to get rid of all her possessions

It was no longer safe to have been associated with her home country

She needed to get a new passport
5 How does the speaker feel about the racism she experiences in her new country?
It's better than the violence she experienced at home

She doesn't experience racism

It makes her want to go back home

She doesn't mind it
6 What migration pattern might Shire have been referring to with this poem?
Syria to Europe

America to Canada

Iran to Syria

England to America
7 Where was Warsan Shire born?
Somalia

England

America

Kenya
8 Where did Warsan Shire grow up?
London

Mogadishu

Los Angeles

Nairobi
9 What was Warsan Shire's first collection of poetry called?
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Lemonade

Warsan Vs. Melancholy

The House
10 How many refugees are estimated to exist currently?
500,000

3.1 million

68.5 million

5.8 million
11 What is the difference between a refugee and asylee?
Refugees are minors, while asylees are adults

Refugees are coming to a new country looking for refuge, while asylees have already arrived in that country

Refugees are in need of medical care, while asylees are self-sufficient

Refugees are from the Middle East and Africa, while asylees are from South America
12 What is an example of a symbol in "Home"?
The refugee camps

The tin factory

The mouth of a shark

Hunger
13 What is an example of a motif in "Home"?
The mouth of a shark

The barrel of a gun

The border

Fear
14 What is the poem's form?
The poem does not follow an exact structure

Villanelle

ABAB

Sonnet
15 What was Warsan Shire's primary connection to the subject material?
Shire met a group of refugees who asked her to write the poem

Shire fled Somalia as a refugee herself as a child

Shire learned about the crisis and felt the need to speak out about it

Shire is Somalian, and Somalia has been in violent crisis for her whole life; and she is an immigrant herself
16 What is Shire referring to with the phrase "no one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land"?
The way that many people immigrated to America on various ships, including slave ships

The way that many parents will hide their children on commercial boats in order to get them out of their home countries

The way that many migrants come from the Middle East and Africa to Europe through dangerous sea journeys on small inflatable boats

This phrase is a reference to the story of Noah's ark, which describes how God decided to destroy and recreate the world
17 What is Warsan Shire trying to combat or protest with this poem?
Patriotism

Multiculturalism

Homesickness

Xenophobia

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Home Warsan Shire

The poem shifts between first-person and the unusual second-person perspective, using both "i" and "you" as the subject of the poem. The speaker seems to be a refugee herself, and she describes the harrowing experience from her own point of view;...

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What understanding of refugees, migration and migrants can we glean from the poem “Home”? Discuss with close reference to the use of stylistic devices in the poem.

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