This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was Maya Angelou's birth name? A) Anne. B) Marguerite. C) Ruth. D) Michelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marguerite. 2. Why is Angelou afraid to tell Dr. King about her brother? A) She is afraid of how he will react and that he might lose respect for her. B) King is not very good with being told bad news. C) She does not trust Dr. King. D) Angelou is afraid he might yell at her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is afraid of how he will react and that he might lose respect for her. 3. Maya's poems often had themes of racial discrimination, confidence, beauty, and ..... A) Education. B) Death. C) Nature. D) The human spirit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The human spirit. 4. A figure of speech that compares two different things without the words "like" or "as." A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Segregate. D) Memoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. Drifting is to snow as ..... is to water. A) Familiarity. B) Infuse. C) Cascading. D) Sacrilegious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cascading. 6. A pattern of stressed syllables A) Pattern. B) Rhythm. C) Stanza. D) Elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 7. Which area was she born in? A) Arkansas. B) St.Louis. C) San Francisco. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) St.Louis. 8. Language that means something other than its literal meaning and expresses ideas in vivid ways. A) Imagery. B) Autobiography. C) Figurative language. D) Legacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 9. When was Maya Angelou's death? A) Never happened. B) 2017. C) 2014. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2014. 10. The movement from paragraphs 5 to 6 involves a shift in A) Subject. B) Occasion. C) Purpose. D) Point of view. E) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of view. 11. She was ..... by her grands parents. A) Raised up. B) Picked up. C) Bring up. D) Brought up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brought up. 12. Why does the speaker of the poem make a list: "Bad dogs, Big ghosts, mean Old Mother Goose, Lions on the loose" ? A) To help us laugh. B) To help us understand her age. C) To help us think of bad things. D) To help us make our own list of fears. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To help us understand her age. 13. Why is "Kissy little girls/with their hair in curls" in lines 30-31 in parentheses? A) Maybe she is quoting what the boys said when they pulled her hair. B) Maybe they didn't say it very loudly. C) Maybe they didn't really mean it. D) Maybe they didn't want the teacher to hear it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maybe she is quoting what the boys said when they pulled her hair. 14. An inheritance or gift; something handed down from an ancestor or from the past. A) Resilience. B) Metaphor. C) Legacy. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legacy. 15. "the huts of history's shame" is example of which literary device? A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Language that describes something very vividly so that readers can understand it with their senses. A) Memoir. B) Imagery. C) Figurative Language. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. Disease is to medicine as ..... is to education. A) Essence. B) Illiteracy. C) Sacrilegious. D) Familiarity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illiteracy. 18. Which abstract expressionist was known for using the "drip technique or drip and splash" ? A) Wassily Kandinsky. B) Mark Rothko. C) Jackson Pollock. D) Kazimir Malevich. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jackson Pollock. 19. A set of instruments used to create a poem A) Pattern. B) Rhythm. C) Stanza. D) Elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elements. 20. Which of the following jobs did Maya work in the early part of her career? A) Dancer. B) Waitress. C) Fry Cook. D) Cable Car Conductor. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 21. As a child, Maya Angelou A) Faced racism and prejudice. B) Stopped speaking for many years. C) Went back and forth between homes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 22. An art medium is made of graphite, encased in wood and it is widely used as a form of writing and drawing. A) Charcoal. B) Brush. C) Colored pencil. D) Pencil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pencil. 23. What object most commonly appears in Picasso's paintings? A) Guitar. B) Oranges. C) Flowers. D) Flute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guitar. 24. Helen Keller wrote her ..... and gave it the title "The Story of My Life." A) Autobiography. B) Memoir. C) Biography. D) Legacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autobiography. 25. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.It's Maya Angelou's ..... , A history of a person's life written in all honesty. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Autobiography. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autobiography. 26. Memoir is another name for personal narrative. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. Frederick Douglass was born into A) Slavery. B) A community who took care of him. C) A great family. D) A monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slavery. 28. What are the poets thoughts like? A) Sad, gloomy, scary. B) Happy, positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sad, gloomy, scary. 29. In Still I Rise, "Up from a past that's rooted in pain" is about ..... A) Racism. B) Slavery. C) Happiness. D) All other answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slavery. 30. She was always a ..... person, thinking highly of herself and her importance. A) Plausible. B) Encumbered. C) Transmitters. D) Exalted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transmitters. 31. Which of the following refers to the white person? A) Bird that wants to reach the sky. B) Singing bird. C) A bird with a terrible voice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bird that wants to reach the sky. 32. I can play the piano from by heart. A) Figurative. B) Literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative. 33. What feeling does the poem's repeated lines- "I rise"-suggest? A) Frustration. B) Sadness. C) Humbleness. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 34. What is an example of legacy? A) Door. B) Chair. C) Table. D) An inheritance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An inheritance. 35. The free bird demonstrates freedom and power when it A) Shouts on a nightmare scream. B) Sings with a fearful trill. C) Stalks down its narrow cage. D) Claims the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Claims the sky. 36. Easy. A moving car possesses ..... A) Heat energy. B) Mechanical energy. C) Chemical energy. D) Sound energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mechanical energy. 37. Where was Maya Angelou born? A) San Francisco, California. B) Washington D.C. C) Stamps, Arkansas. D) St. Louis, Missouri. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St. Louis, Missouri. 38. A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as." "She entered the room as quietly as a mouse" is an example. A) Simile. B) Resilience. C) Legacy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 39. Which words provide a negative connotation? A) Clipped stalks rage. B) Floats dips claims. C) Worms trill tune. D) Shouts sings freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clipped stalks rage. 40. Philanthropist-I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly want to be known as charitable. What does philanthropist mean? A) Philanthropist means a mother who loves her daughter. B) Philanthropist means a therapist who talks to people. C) Philanthropist means having antlers. D) Philanthropist means giving to humankind because one cares for humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philanthropist means giving to humankind because one cares for humans. 41. Identify a connotative phrase used by Maya Angelou that represents strength. A) Unyielding spirit. B) Stand tall. C) Still I rise. D) Rise up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Still I rise. 42. Her novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is: A) Literature. B) A biography. C) An autobiography. D) An essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An autobiography. 43. Which is not a possible theme of 'Still I Rise?' A) Courage. B) Injustice. C) Pride. D) Defeat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Defeat. 44. Pick the best antonym for the word fester. A) Improve. B) Disturb. C) Go away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Improve. 45. Select the synonym for the following words gifttraditionheritage A) Imagery. B) Legacy. C) Memoir. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Memoir. 46. When was Maya Angelou born? A) June 30, 1929. B) December 21, 1927. C) April 4, 1928. D) February 27, 1928. E) September 5, 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) April 4, 1928. 47. Which artist is famous for Pop Art? A) Pablo Picasso. B) Salvador Dali. C) Piet Mondrian. D) Andy Warhol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andy Warhol. 48. What caused Maya to move to live in with her grandmother? A) Her dad died. B) Her brother was mad at her. C) Her mother was sick. D) Her parents split up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her parents split up. 49. What is SIMILAR about the emotional tone in both Maya Angelou's speech and Lou Gehrig's Farewell Address? A) Somber and Reflective. B) Celebratory and Joyful. C) Humorous and Playful. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) . 50. How are the details in lines 28-32 different from those in stanzas (verses) 1-4? A) She is growing up and has different experiences. B) There may be a new kid at school. C) The other verses are very general experiences, this one is specific to being new to a school. D) None of the other things that were mentioned in stanzas 1-4 were really that scary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The other verses are very general experiences, this one is specific to being new to a school. 51. Which of these best describes the theme of "Cage Bird" ? A) Freedom is found through voice. B) It is better to wish for freedom than have it. C) No one should cage a bird. D) Only free birds can sing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freedom is found through voice. 52. What is this poem all about? A) The lives of two birds. B) Joy and singing. C) The dreams of birds. D) Freedom and slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Freedom and slavery. 53. What is the name of the personnel manager? A) Mr Brown. B) Mr Jones. C) Mr Smith. D) Mr Cooper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr Cooper. 54. Where did Vincent Van Gogh paint the famous "Starry Night" ? A) From the window of his asylum room. B) From a cafe he used to visit. C) On the hills just across town. D) From the window of his bedroom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From the window of his asylum room. 55. Evaluate the sentence:Throughout her writing career, Maya Angelou composed poetry, autobiographies, essays, and lectures that inspired people of all races, ages, and cultures. A) This is a complex sentence. B) This is a fragment. C) This is a run-on sentence. D) No change needed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No change needed. 56. Why did Maya move to Stamps, Arkansas? A) Her mom and dad had to relocate for a job. B) She was sent to live with her grandmother after her parents split up. C) She gave birth to her son. D) She was mute, so she had to go to a special school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was sent to live with her grandmother after her parents split up. 57. Which award has she won from this list? A) Oscar. B) Tony. C) Grammy. D) Emmy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grammy. 58. Difficult. The following is a base sequence found along a DNA template strand:ATGCCA. What are the partner bases found in the DNA complementary strand? A) ATGCCA. B) THANK YOU. C) TUCGGT. D) AAGCCT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) THANK YOU. 59. The ending of "New Directions" is A) Sad because the family will never get out of poverty. B) Uplifting because it encourages people to take charge of their lives. C) Filled with anger because of all the injustice in the world. D) Challenging because it recommends that people do as they are expected to do. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uplifting because it encourages people to take charge of their lives. 60. Use of the material aspects of words into particular repetitive forms A) Rhythm. B) Pattern. C) Elements. D) Stanza. 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