This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What effect do the words 'Stalks, cage, rage clipped and tied? A) The caged bird as free and ready to claim what is his. B) The caged bird is limited and angry yet hopeful. C) The caged bird is to do as he wishes in his cage. D) The caged bird is proud to be kept in a cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The caged bird is limited and angry yet hopeful. 2. What lesson does Maya learn from her mother when she finally smiles for her? A) Maya learns how to look pretty. B) Maya learns to talk. C) Maya learns that being kind and charitable brings joy to both the giver and the receiver. D) Maya learns to buy her mother gifts to make her proud of her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maya learns that being kind and charitable brings joy to both the giver and the receiver. 3. What is the synonym for stiff? A) Hard. B) Exhausted. C) Tired. D) Rigid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rigid. 4. In stanza 2, the only rhyming words are ..... and ..... A) Stalks and through. B) Sing and tied. C) Rage and cage. D) Bird and bird. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rage and cage. 5. The word perceptive means: A) A ceremony. B) Changed the nature of; reinvented. C) Set apart according to race. D) Able to comprehend through insight or intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Able to comprehend through insight or intuition. 6. What is the overall message that Angelou delivers through her poem? A) Never resist your oppressors. B) Resist your oppressors and fight for the change. C) Listen and abide to your oppressors. D) Ignore your oppressors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resist your oppressors and fight for the change. 7. Was Maya's childhood easy? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 8. Women had replaced men on the streetcars as conductors and motormen. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 9. What part of speech is "commune" ? A) Adverb. B) Adjective. C) Noun. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb. 10. Do you think he'll ever ..... and have a family? A) Settled down. B) Set up. C) Turn up. D) Grew up. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Settled down. 11. I am the youngest Inaugural Poet in history. Who Am I? A) Elizabeth Alexander. B) Maya Angelou. C) Amanda Gorman. D) Richard Blanco. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amanda Gorman. 12. What do the two qualities of style have in common? A) They both involve treating others as you want to be treated. B) They both involve hard work. C) They both involve patience. D) They have nothing in common. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both involve treating others as you want to be treated. 13. How many autobiographis did she publish? A) 3. B) 5. C) 7. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7. 14. She was the first African American A) Cable car conductor. B) Taxi driver. C) Tv presenter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cable car conductor. 15. True or False:She lived in Egypt for a peroid of time A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Who wrote "Mom & Me & Mom?" A) Maya Angelou. B) Mayans. C) Angel Langston. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maya Angelou. 17. What artist believed he was a reincarnation of his dead brother? A) Vincent Van Gogh. B) Salvador Dali. C) Pablo Picasso. D) Jackson Pollock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salvador Dali. 18. Who gave Marguerite Annie Johnson the nickname Maya Angelou? A) Her grandfather. B) Her brother. C) Her mother. D) Her teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her brother. 19. Read these lines from the poem. But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of rage What do these lines reveal about the caged bird? A) The caged bird is aware of its surroundings. B) The caged bird is satisfied with its life. C) The caged bird has difficulty flying. D) The caged bird has strong feelings about his situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The caged bird has strong feelings about his situation. 20. The rhyme scheme follows an aabbccddeeffgg structure throughout the poem A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 21. Which of the options is the correct level according to the intensity of the feeling? A) Annoyed, grumpy, angry. B) Angry, angry, annoyed. C) Annoyed, angry, squeamish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annoyed, angry, squeamish. 22. Where was Maya's hometown? A) Alaska. B) Alabama. C) Arkansas. D) Atlanta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arkansas. 23. What is the name of the program that includes coins featuring prominent women in American history? A) Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020. B) Women on Coins. C) Money Making Women. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020. 24. What does the repetition of stanza 3 emphasize about the poem's theme? A) The songs of caged bird ignored. B) The caged bird dreams of freedom. C) The only thing the caged bird has its voice. D) The caged bird is down by its situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The only thing the caged bird has its voice. 25. Her books and poems filled with ..... , Like similes, metaphors, and imagery. A) Resilience. B) Autobiography. C) Figurative Language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 26. (adj) overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious A) Auspicious. B) Transmitters. C) Fated. D) Inanimate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transmitters. 27. What is the best description of a theme for this story? A) Life lessons sometimes come from surprising opportunities. B) Listen to those who have more life experience. C) It is important to read in order to self-educate. D) People do not gain self-confidence until they realize that their existence matters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People do not gain self-confidence until they realize that their existence matters. 28. What organizational pattern is used throughout the passage? A) Cause and Effect. B) Problem and Solution. C) Chronological. D) Enumeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chronological. 29. What was Maya Angelou's true love? A) Dancing. B) Writing. C) Acting. D) Singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing. 30. What is the purpose of the first paragraph in this article? A) To tell the reader why Maya Angelou is so important. B) To tell the reader about all of the awards Maya Angelou has received. C) To give the reader background information about Maya Angelou's childhood. D) To tell the reader about Maya's brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To give the reader background information about Maya Angelou's childhood. 31. The content of stanza 3 is repeated in stanza 6. This repetition is called A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Internal rhyme. D) Chorus or refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chorus or refrain. 32. What does the "grave of dreams" refer to? A) Death of hope for freedom. B) Many slaves with the dream of freedom, died. C) Discrimination is finally rid of. D) Death of Maya Angelou. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death of hope for freedom. 33. The "grave dream" represents A) A feeling of ignorance. B) A feeling of hopelessness because the dream is desroyed. C) Where the bird will die. D) The possibility for the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A feeling of hopelessness because the dream is desroyed. 34. From these four selections, you can conclude that Angelou A) Believes that she has had an easy life. B) Is concerned about the hardships many people face in life. C) Thinks people make their own "cages" in life. D) Believes we cannot get out of the situation into which we are born. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is concerned about the hardships many people face in life. 35. Fact or Opinion-Maya Angelou was the best writer ever. A) Opinion. B) Fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opinion. 36. Why does the caged bird sing? A) It wants to challenge the free bird. B) It has to make others feel good. C) It wants to entertain people. D) It has only one way to express itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It has only one way to express itself. 37. In "New Directions" what does Angelou's grandmother mean when she says "I decided to step off the road and cut me a new path" ? A) She wanted to get married again and have her husband help support her. B) She was going to find an unexpected way to support herself and her family. C) She was hoping to earn enough to move from the South to the North. D) She knew that she was hopelessly trapped in poverty and hard work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was going to find an unexpected way to support herself and her family. 38. The extract begins and ends with a description of the same place. Which place? A) The streetcar. B) Her home. C) The crummy waiting room. D) The street. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The crummy waiting room. 39. Is this the last question? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 40. Determine the sentence type:When she was involved in the civil rights movement, Maya Angelou held a leadership position for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s organization. A) Compound sentence. B) Simple sentence. C) Complex sentence. D) Run-on sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex sentence. 41. The first paragraph includes each of the following EXCEPT A) Description. B) Reflection. C) Narration. D) Exposition. E) Argumentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Argumentation. 42. Easy. The organelles of eukaryotic cells that are bounded by cell membrane are. A) Mitochondria. B) Endoplasmic reticulum. C) Chloroplasts. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 43. Angelou need to convince her Mother to go ..... A) School. B) Work. C) To a friend house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Work. 44. What is the main idea of this article? A) Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928. B) Maya Angelou overcame many challenges become an inspirational poet and speaker. C) If you work hard, you can overcome your challenges. D) In 1969, she published her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maya Angelou overcame many challenges become an inspirational poet and speaker. 45. She ..... in New York. A) Brought up. B) Look up. C) Grew up. D) Brought down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grew up. 46. Who gave Maya her nickname? A) Her father. B) Her best friend, Rachel. C) Her sister, Anne. D) Her brother, Bailey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her brother, Bailey. 47. Where did Maya grow up? A) Road cancer. B) South Carolina. C) Kentucky. D) Arkansas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arkansas. 48. Which word matches the right synonymsGiftTraditionHeritage A) Imagery. B) Legacy. C) Memoir. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legacy. 49. A collection that stores an ordered list of items A) Array. B) Argument. C) Variable. D) Iteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Array. 50. Identify a connotative word used by Maya Angelou to convey determination. A) Descend. B) Rise. C) Sink. D) Fall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rise. 51. What stereotype is the speaker referring to in lines 33 and 34? A) All girls are afraid of frogs and snakes. B) Screaming is a good thing. C) All girls are afraid of bad dreams. D) All boys like frogs and snakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All girls are afraid of frogs and snakes. 52. Beauty is to ugliness as ..... is to inexperience. A) Aristocrat. B) Sophistication. C) Aura. D) Essence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sophistication. 53. The first stanza is meant to show A) The cages bird's feelings of despair and hopelessness. B) The beauty of the sun's rays. C) The thrill of being free to live your life as you please. D) How a bird flies free and claims the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The thrill of being free to live your life as you please. 54. What Year Did Maya Pass Away A) December, 19 1998. B) May, 28 2014. C) March, 26 2002. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) May, 28 2014. 55. Maya Angelou is the first African American woman to appear on the U.S. quarter. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 56. What joke does Dr. King play on Maya Angelou? A) King surprises her by sitting in her chair with his back to the door. B) King does not play a joke on her. C) He puts a whoopie cushion in her chair. D) He tells her a joke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King surprises her by sitting in her chair with his back to the door. 57. True or False-Maya Angelou was a writer A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 58. What part of speech is "array" ? A) Verb. B) Noun. C) Adverb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noun. 59. What does it mean when the persona says ..... Understanding if you got it, Otherwise I'll do without it! A) To understand the situation. B) Speak to her on even ground, respectfully, she will accept that or she can go without anything. C) The persona does not need help with anything. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speak to her on even ground, respectfully, she will accept that or she can go without anything. 60. A particularly ordered arrangement of words A) Poem. B) Poetry. C) Rhyme. D) Scheme. 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