This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Gwendolyn Brooks > Gwendolyn Brooks – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did Gwendolyn love to share with her aunts? A) Poems. B) Food. C) Money. D) Books. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poems. 2. In which year did Gwendolyn Brooks die? A) 2005. B) 2000. C) 1995. D) 2010. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2000. 3. What does the word preferred mean? A) A goal or something you want a lot. B) Something that is unfair. C) Liking something more than something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liking something more than something else. 4. What is the setting of "Home." A) The front porch of a home. B) A loan officer's office. C) An apartment. D) A party hosted by Helen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The front porch of a home. 5. Caged Bird:What does the phrase "unknown but longed for still" mean? A) The caged bird has not lost hope yet, but he is close to giving up. B) The rest of the world wants the caged bird to be out after hearing his singing. C) The caged bird doesn't know what he's missing, but he still misses it. D) The caged bird used to have a free life, but he is now in a cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The caged bird doesn't know what he's missing, but he still misses it. 6. When the passage says the Maud Martha "tried to keep the fronts of her eyes dry, " it means that she ..... A) Tried to keep from arguing with her sister. B) Concentrated on watching the robin in the tree. C) Reacted to the effects of the afternoon sun. D) Struggled to keep from crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Struggled to keep from crying. 7. How did Gwendolyn Brooks feel when she sent her work to Langston Hughes? A) Excited and Brave. B) Nervous and Anxious. C) Unhappy and Bored. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excited and Brave. 8. Does a poem have rhyming words? A) Maybe. B) Yes. C) No. D) I dont know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 9. What does it mean to be Emphatic? A) Showing something with a special and strong emphasis. B) Being shy and timid. C) Not trying your best to get a job done. D) Being rude and selfish to others for no reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Showing something with a special and strong emphasis. 10. What was the Author's Purpose A) Inform. B) Entertain. C) Persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inform. 11. Julian ..... said that he could not make it to the party. A) Obstinately. B) Casually. C) Firing. D) Flatly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Casually. 12. What were Brooks' Poems mostly about A) The weather. B) Romantic encounters. C) The lives of African Americans. D) Her favorite foods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The lives of African Americans. 13. Which of these sentences from the story BEST reflects the sense of security Helen feels at the end of the story? A) They could not tell a thing. B) The door slammed shut. C) "I think I'll give a party.". D) Presently Mama's head emerged. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "I think I'll give a party.". 14. At which university did Gwendolyn Brooks teach creative writing? A) Columbia College. B) Chicago State University. C) Northeastern Illinois University. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. How did the poets of the Black Arts Movement set an example for Gwendolyn? A) They wrote about things that were important to black Americans. B) She wrote about the way they were treated. C) They were not proud to be black. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They wrote about things that were important to black Americans. 16. The sentence "Her eyes were lamps turned on" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allegory. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. This selection is BEST described as a ..... A) Satire. B) Myth. C) Legend. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Story. 18. What does to forcefully put a foot down mean? A) Lonely. B) Might. C) Scolding. D) Stamp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stamp. 19. What year did she pass away? A) 1980. B) 1955. C) 1974. D) 2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2000. 20. Where did she Graduate College? A) St. Marys College. B) Woodrow Wilson Junior College. C) Kansas State University. D) Stonehill College. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Woodrow Wilson Junior College. 21. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American woman to win this prize ..... what was it named? A) Edgar Award. B) Nobel Prize. C) Pulitzer Prize. D) Booker Prize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulitzer Prize. 22. Vocabulary:I need an ..... on my assignment because I'm not finished. A) Firing. B) Extension. C) Obstinate. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extension. 23. What does Vacant mean? A) Having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants; empty. B) Full of life and color. C) A place where you store old books. D) Looking into a mystery or searching for something lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants; empty. 24. In the Poem "Lyle", how many homes has the speaker waved goodby to? A) 8. B) 7. C) 10. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 25. In the dark:What is the misunderstanding in the final section of the poem? A) The narrator is afraid of the therapist and screams at her during their session. B) The therapist thinks the narrator is an intruder rather than a patient. C) The narrator goes to a therapy appointment but knocks at the wrong person's door. D) The therapist forgot about her appointment with the narrator, which causes her to yell in surprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The therapist thinks the narrator is an intruder rather than a patient. 26. Vocabulary:Damian likes living on a high floor because his ..... receives lots of sunlight. A) Obstinate. B) Flat. C) Firing. D) Extension. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat. 27. How did Gwendolyn Brooks's dream come true? A) She had a school named after her. B) She became a poet. C) She helped many writers and inspired black poets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She helped many writers and inspired black poets. 28. What does the word example mean? A) Something that is unfair. B) Liking something more than something else. C) Showing how to do something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Showing how to do something. 29. Rudolph wanted to move to the country to spread his arms because it was too crowded in the city. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. "The door opened with a creak" is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 31. When Gwendolyn was eleven she had her first poems published. Where were they printed? A) In a textbook. B) On television. C) On Tik Tok. D) In the neighborhood newspaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the neighborhood newspaper. 32. Which Poem earned her the Pulitzer Prize? A) We real Cool. B) Annie Allen. C) Maud Martha. D) Eventide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annie Allen. 33. What was the racial prejudice that Gwendolyn Brooks encountered during her education? A) Nothing. B) Because she was black. C) Because she was young. D) Because she was a woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because she was black. 34. "The library after hours was as silent as the grave" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 35. What does the word numerous mean? A) Liking something more than something else. B) Having a lot of something. C) Showing how to do something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having a lot of something. 36. What was the writer's purpose for this story? A) To tell about Gwendolyn's teaching career. B) Telling us everything about the Black Arts Movement. C) To tell how Gwendolyn Brooks's life and how she important to the Black Arts Movement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To tell how Gwendolyn Brooks's life and how she important to the Black Arts Movement. 37. What does the word extension mean in this sentence from the passage?"If he had not succeed in getting another extension they would be leaving this house in which they had lived for more than fourteen years." A) A larger amount of space. B) An outward movement of the leg. C) Extra time to repay a debt. D) A structural addition to a house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extra time to repay a debt. 38. The repetition of sound at the end of the words is called? A) Rhyming. B) Stanza. C) Imagery. D) Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 39. What does staccato mean? A) Short, quick, and detached from others. B) Long and drawn out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Short, quick, and detached from others. 40. Gwendolyn Brooks grew up poor. They had little money but lots of ..... A) Animals. B) Poetry books. C) Apples. D) Christmas cards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry books. 41. Why did Gwendolyn Brooks take her poems wherever she went? A) She read in hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings. B) She felt poetry should be read out loud. C) She was always ready to read. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She felt poetry should be read out loud. 42. What do we call lines that repeat in a poem? A) Repetition. B) Single. C) Doubles. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 43. Brooks worked for the NAACP A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. How does the author develop the perspectives of Maud Martha and Helen in the text? A) Through their thoughts about each other. B) Through their feelings about the terms of the loan. C) Through their dialogue about Papa's purpose in life. D) Through their actions in firing from October to April. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Through their dialogue about Papa's purpose in life. 45. The rhyme scheme of a sonnet looks like: A) Abba-cddc-effe-gg. B) Abab-cdcd-efef-gg. C) ABCD EFGH IJKL M N. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abab-cdcd-efef-gg. 46. Gwendolyn Brooks did not have support from her teachers. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. The setting for this selection is ..... A) A flat on South Park. B) The front porch of a house. C) The Home Owners' Loan office. D) A party hosted by Helen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The front porch of a house. 48. Was the Pulitzer Prize important to Gwendolyn Brooks? A) Yes. B) No. C) She didn't win the prize. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 49. What age did she release her first poem? A) 18. B) 30. C) 9. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13. 50. Which is NOT one of Brooks' works? A) "A Street in Bronzeville". B) "I, Too". C) "Annie Allen". D) "In The Mecca". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I, Too". 51. What does the word injustice mean? A) Something that is unfair. B) Liking something more than something else. C) A goal or something you want a lot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something that is unfair. 52. Which word rhymes with fish? A) Dish. B) Thank. C) Math. D) Phone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dish. 53. In the dark:What does someone suffering from "John Henry-ism" do? A) They sit in silence to prevent people from thinking bad about them. B) Overwork themselves to prove their value to others. C) Notice negative things that people around them are saying. D) Fight against racism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overwork themselves to prove their value to others. 54. What was the title of Gwendolyn Brooks' first book of poetry? A) A Street in Bronzeville. B) Annie Allen. C) The Bean Eaters. D) In the Mecca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Street in Bronzeville. 55. What does the phrase "turning her hands over and over" reveal about Mama? A) She gestures a lot as she talks. B) She waves excitedly at her husband. C) She has pain in her hands. D) She is worried or nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is worried or nervous. 56. What year was Gwendolyn Brooks born? A) 1954. B) 1945. C) 1917. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1917. 57. What does the word dream mean? A) A goal or wanting something a lot. B) Liking something more than something else. C) Having a lot of something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A goal or wanting something a lot. 58. In the dark:Explain the situation in the first section of the poem. A) The narrator is imagining an interaction with her colleague from school. B) The narrator is being followed by the police in a car with a coworker. C) A fellow professor explains that he feels forced to hire a non-white writer when he feels there are better options. D) The coworker is trying to get a negative reaction out of the narrator by saying racist things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fellow professor explains that he feels forced to hire a non-white writer when he feels there are better options. 59. The tone of this passage could BEST be described as ..... A) Bitter. B) Tender. C) Mocking. D) Critical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tender. 60. REREAD pg. 145 of your text. In Stanza 1 of the poem, which word is the speaker repeating? A) Home. B) First. C) Pack. D) Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tree. Next →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesGwendolyn Brooks Quiz 2Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books