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

green

red

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

metaphor

repetition

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

simile

oxymoron

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

free verse

blank verse

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?
French Guiana

Guyana

Suriname

England
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United Kingdom

France

The United States

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

wind

sunrise

a fish’s red gill
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Live your dream

Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others

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

touch, sight

sight, smell

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

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

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

speaker's birthday

Mother's Day

mother's death
12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother?
fried plantain smell

sound of leaves

moon's eye

flame tree's spread
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?
gushing wind

snake

mirror

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

streaming

mantling

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

second person singular

first person singular

first person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker
traumatic, upsetting

distant, fractured

close, comforting

friendly, easy
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols' sister

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

wide futures

happy life

brilliant futures
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
cold

deep

bold

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

rise

bright

warm
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?
streaming

nourishing

refreshing

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

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

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

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

haiku

sonnet

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

ode

villanelle

epigram

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