This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the first nonfiction best-selling book by an African-American woman? A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. B) Gather Together in My Name. C) Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. D) The Heart of a Woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 2. Pick the best synonym for the word shanty. A) Mansion. B) Abode. C) Hut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hut. 3. Easy. The flattened sacs that are present in the cell were discovered by ..... A) Rachel Carson. B) Ernst Haeckel. C) David Baltimore. D) Camillo Golgi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Camillo Golgi. 4. Antonyms:combine A) Legacy. B) Imagery. C) Segregate. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Segregate. 5. What are Primary Colors? A) A color that can be made using art. B) A color that is present in the rainbow. C) A color that can't be made by mixing colors. D) A color that can be made through light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A color that can't be made by mixing colors. 6. Choose the synonym of the following words. autobiography, account A) Memoir. B) Resilience. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Memoir. 7. There are lots of harsh sounds in the first stanza of the poem, and lots of softer sounds in the remaining stanzas A) True. B) False. C) Not sure yet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Angelou's intellectual pride had kept her from selecting. A) Typing. B) Running. C) Speaking. D) Writting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Typing. 9. What is the name of one of the awards Maya Angelou won? A) Library Award. B) Famous Poem Award. C) Best Actress Award. D) Outstanding Literature Award. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outstanding Literature Award. 10. Quickly is to slowly as ..... is to occasionally. A) Incessantly. B) Cascading. C) Illiteracy. D) Familiarity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incessantly. 11. When did she publish "I know why the caged bird sings" ? A) 1980. B) 1969. C) 1978. D) 2017. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1969. 12. In stanza 9, what words invite the reader to be part of Maya Angelou's ideas in this poem? A) Alike and unalike. B) We and friends. C) We and alike. D) Friends and unalike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We and friends. 13. What did Maya study at the California Labor School? A) Cable cars. B) Dance and acting. C) Children. D) Engineering and math. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dance and acting. 14. What famous work of Mrs. Angelou's is honored on the tail side of the quarter? A) "Get me Out of School Soon". B) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.". C) I Love The Weekends. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.". 15. The content of stanza 3 is repeated in stanza 6. This repetition reveals that the bird A) Has resigned himself to an imprisoned life. B) Is now content, understanding that life in the cage is safer. C) Has never known freedom, but understands what it is and hopes for it. D) Sings a song of freedom that is not heard by others, but he accepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has never known freedom, but understands what it is and hopes for it. 16. When did Maya stop writing? A) Money. B) Job. C) Tired. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Death. 17. Difficult. A pendulum which is suspended from the ceiling of a railroad car is observed to hang at an angle of 10 degrees to the right of vertical. Which of the following answers could explain this phenomenon? A) The railroad car is at rest. B) The railroad car is accelerating to the right. C) The railroad car is accelerating to the left. D) The railroad car is moving with constant velocity to the right. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The railroad car is accelerating to the left. 18. "Volunteers fell over themselves to secure replacements for the missing equipment" (par.1) is an example of A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 19. Why did Maya Angelou win two NAACP awards? A) Authoring books. B) Showing hate to others. C) Teaching students. D) Building friendships. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Authoring books. 20. How many awards did Maya Angelou win? A) 100+ awards. B) 24 awards. C) 54 awards. D) 3 awards. E) 36 awards. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 54 awards. 21. Who is on the heads side of the Maya Angelou quarter? A) Kanye West. B) Alain McNeil. C) George Washington. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Washington. 22. How are Maya Angelou and Helen Keller similar? A) Both are singers. B) Both are dancers. C) Both are authors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both are authors. 23. Who is the persona of the poem? A) Voiceless in society. B) Black people who lost their freedom and rights. C) People who are victims of discrimination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black people who lost their freedom and rights. 24. Pick the best synonym for the word fray. A) Conflict. B) Converse. C) Sew. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 25. What is the Message (or meaning) of this poem? A) To list the things you're scared of. B) Face your fears with courage. C) Kids are afraid of lots of things. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Face your fears with courage. 26. "Your smile is like the sunlight" is an example of a ..... A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 27. Which of the following was NOT a struggle Maya faced during her life? A) She didn't learn to read until she was 14 years old. B) She faced racial discrimination and prejudices. C) She did not speak for 5 years. D) She moved back and forth between her mother's and grandmother's homes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She didn't learn to read until she was 14 years old. 28. What was the title of Maya Angelou's first autobiography? A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. B) Gather Together in My Name. C) Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. D) The Heart of a Woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 29. The final two lines of Maya Angelou's "The Lesson, " printed below, illustrate which literary device? I keep on dying, Because I love to live. A) Parenthesis. B) Parameter. C) Paradox. D) Parabola. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 30. How was self-expression conveyed through the poem? A) The caged bird singing. B) "his wings are clipped and his feet are tied". C) Free bird. D) Bars of rage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The caged bird singing. 31. She was born in ..... A) St. Francisco. B) California. C) Missouri. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Missouri. 32. True or False:The only thing she is famous for is her acting A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 33. What does the caged bird's singing reveal about him? A) He does not know how to sing. B) He prefers to sing rather than to fly. C) Singing is the only way he can talk to other birds. D) He is terribly unhappy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is terribly unhappy. 34. Poems collectively or as a genre of literature A) Poem. B) Rhyme. C) Poetry. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 35. The mood varies throughout the poem A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. Which word is a synonym for memoir as it is used in the text? A) Laptop. B) Truck. C) Book. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Book. 37. Choose the NEAR RHYME example: A) I just SMILE // They go WILD. B) I go BOO // They go SHOO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I just SMILE // They go WILD. 38. In Maya Angelou's writings, what is the connotation of the word 'hope'? A) Negative and discouraging. B) Neutral and indifferent. C) Confusing and ambiguous. D) Positive and uplifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive and uplifting. 39. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. He ..... of school at 14. A) Stand out. B) Went on. C) Fond out. D) Dropped out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dropped out. 41. In stanza 4, what is the literary element found in the four lines of this stanza? A) Allusion. B) Allusionalliteration. C) There are no literary elements. D) Allusion alliteration imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion alliteration imagery. 42. Angelou's birth certificates reveal she is ..... A) Sixteen years old. B) Fourteen years old. C) Fifteen years old. D) Seventeen years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fifteen years old. 43. His poem was full of beautiful ..... ; I felt as though I could smell and see the flowers just from reading it. A) Resilience. B) Imagery. C) Legacy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 44. A piece of writing that is usually rhythmical A) Poem. B) Poetry. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 45. (Imagery) Food appeals to what sense? A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Taste. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taste. 46. What do you call a combination of cut-outs, pictures, cloth and other objects? A) Manipulatives. B) Collage. C) Snippets. D) Art project. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collage. 47. Which of the following lines is the best example of personification? A) On a distant hill. B) The caged bird stalks. C) And the trade winds soft through the sighing trees. D) Of things unknown but longed for still. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) And the trade winds soft through the sighing trees. 48. Which line is example of internal rhyme? A) The free bird thinks of another breeze. B) And the trade winds soft through the sighing trees. C) And the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn. D) And he names the sky his own. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) And the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn. 49. When does the scene take place? A) In the day time. B) In the night time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the night time. 50. We read a poem by Maya Angelou and found out she is not afraid of anything: A) Life doesnt frighten me at all. B) Still i rise. C) Woman work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life doesnt frighten me at all. 51. Which of the following does the speaker feel the least in this poem? A) Determination. B) Resilient. C) Irrepressible. D) Hopelessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hopelessness. 52. Why does the speaker repeat the refrain "life doesn't frighten me at all" ? A) To make the poem scarier. B) To emphasize the speakers point. C) The speaker couldn't think of anything else to write. D) To make it rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To emphasize the speakers point. 53. Maya Angelou is recognized for her works as as a writer, actress, singer, and ..... A) Doctor. B) Dancer. C) Mother. D) Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dancer. 54. Is this Maya Angelou's quote"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" .? A) YES. B) NO. C) MAYBE????. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 55. The narrator finds solace in nature A) True. B) False. C) Not sure yet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 56. Why did Maya stop talking for five years at the age of seven? A) She didn't like the sound of her voice. B) She had a terrible stutter. C) She got really sick and couldn't talk. D) She thought her voice had caused the death of a man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She thought her voice had caused the death of a man. 57. Exercise can make your heart stronger. A) Figurative. B) Literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal. 58. What does Maya say you should do about "all the dumb things you do?" A) Remind yourself every day how dumb you were. B) Forgive yourself and learn from them. C) Bury those memories and never think about them. D) Write a book about them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forgive yourself and learn from them. 59. What was Maya Angelou's most popular memoir? A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. B) Gather Together in My Name. C) Unique in every way. D) A Million To One. E) She didn't have one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 60. Jamie says that she doesn't like speaking in front of the class, but she always raises her hand. Perhaps she is just being ..... ? A) Lyric. B) Coy. C) Transmitters. D) Intrepid. 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