Maya Angelou Quiz 7 (60 MCQs)

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1. Easy. Bioamplification/Biomagnification is when toxin levels get higher at each trophic level.
2. Which president did Frederick Douglass get to meet?
3. What is the connotative meaning of the phrase 'rising above' in Maya Angelou's texts?
4. How was Maya able to overcome being abandoned?
5. What happened in 1940?
6. Which phrase from Maya Angelou's "The Lesson" is an example of an abstraction rather than a concrete image?
7. Identify a connotative word used by Maya Angelou to describe empowerment.
8. The grave of dreams represents
9. What is maya's real name?
10. Which line shows how very determined the speaker is to never show fear?
11. Graffiti originated from an Italian word. What does it mean?
12. In the poem "Caged Bird" the free bird symbolizes people who .....
13. The artist Kandisky is considered the first for this type of art
14. What was the name of her most famous work?
15. Maya Angelou was born in
16. The speaker's recollection of her mother in paragraph 7 can best be described as
17. Which form of pottery takes its name from the Italian for baked earth?
18. Toxic is to environment as ..... is to religion.
19. I don't want to ..... too much work.
20. Eat your hear out.
21. Angelou became a mother at the age of
22. According to the poem, the free bird can best be described as
23. Line 13 uses four smooth [ ..... ]
24. Has the cat got your tongue?
25. What point of view is the poem written in?
26. Compared to content, how important is style to Angelou?
27. What gave Angelou the courage to speak again?
28. Cherokee Nation's famous woman leader was Wilma Mankiller.
29. Which two stanzas were repeated in the poem?
30. The life story of a person, written or told by that person.
31. Difficult. How many ATPs are produced by 8 glucose molecules during glycolysis? How many are used up at the start of glycolysis?
32. What does colloquial mean in this context?
33. When you change the nature of, or reinvent something you are ..... ?
34. Angelou would get a job on the streetears.
35. What was here child's name?
36. How many times has the Mona Lisa been stolen?
37. Which word means the same as resided, as it is used in the passage?
38. Is the poet the only person who feels alone?
39. How do the writing styles of Maya Angelou's poem and Lou Gehrig's speech DIFFER?
40. Maya Angelou was from a wealthy, white British family
41. Helen Keller and Maya Angelou read a poem at Bill Clinton's 2014 Inauguration.
42. I've nearly ..... of money.
43. Which president did Maya Angelou write a poem for?
44. Drawn from different sources
45. What is the main conflict in this poem?
46. How did books make Maya feel?
47. The same rhyme scheme continues throughout the poem
48. Easy. An ion is formed when an atom loses/gains an electron.
49. Easy. The energy possessed by a body due to its position is called its .....
50. Analyze what the speaker means in lines 37-40, when she says she has a "magic charm" that she "keeps up her sleeve."
51. Pick the best antonym for the word punctual.
52. Which word describes Maya Angelou?
53. In Still I Rise, Maya Angelou calls herself a "black ocean", which means .....
54. Who is credited as the designer of many statues which decorated the Parthenon?
55. What does the speaker mean by the "gifts" that her ancestors gave?
56. Young Angelou has Just returned to San Francisco after an adrenture-filled trip.
57. The speaker's attitude toward the junior students in paragraph 1 may be best described as
58. What is the author's purpose for writing the passage?
59. Why did Maya think that her grandmother had mistakenly identified the woman on the train platform as her mother?
60. Which famous painter cut off a part of his ear?