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

yellow

red

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

metaphor

anaphora

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

anaphora

simile

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

blank verse

common/ballad meter

iambic pentameter
5 In what country was Nichols born?
England

Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United Kingdom

Ireland

The United States
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?
wind

sunrise

a fish’s red gill

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

Live your dream

Go to your wide futures

Be kind to others
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?
sight, smell

touch, sight

sight, hearing

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

the speaker compares herself to water

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?
Mother's Day

mother's death

mother's birthday

speaker's birthday
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?
moon's eye

snake

gushing wind

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

fathoming

mantling

streaming
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

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold 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."
happy life

wide futures

long life

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

cold

fathoming

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

bright

warm

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

refreshing

replenishing

nourishing
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 are / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

African praise song

haiku

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

epigram

sestina

villanelle

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