This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 9 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is this poem about? Choose the best answer. A) Living a busy, fulfilling life, surrounded by people. B) Loneliness. C) Searching all your life for the perfect partner. D) Financial success. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loneliness. 2. Which French art movement of the late 19th century is characterized by evoking emotion rather than realism. A) Impressionism. B) Futurism. C) Abstract. D) Post-Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Post-Impressionism. 3. Is she currently alive? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 4. Easy. Which of the following is NOT an interaction among ecosystems? A) Equilibrium. B) Competition. C) Mutualism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equilibrium. 5. Select the two lines combination that best describe the difference between the two birds. A) " a bird that stalks" & "dares to claim the sky". B) "his wings are dappled, &"his feet are tied". C) "and his turn is heard" &"sings of freedom". D) "the narrow cage"&"on the distant hill". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) " a bird that stalks" & "dares to claim the sky". 6. What was Maya Angelou's occupation? A) Teacher, Doctor, Lawyer. B) Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur. C) Athlete, Musician, Artist. D) Writer, Poet, Civil Rights Activist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writer, Poet, Civil Rights Activist. 7. What year did Maya get married? A) 1944. B) 1950. C) 1993. D) 1952. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1952. 8. Average. The fluid spaces in which chondrocytes lie in is classified as. A) Collagen fluid. B) Lacuna. C) Tendons. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lacuna. 9. Bonus:Which of these is true? A) Angelou never wrote a cookbook. B) Angelou only spoke 2 languages. C) Angelou despised birds. D) Angelou's childhood years were spent mute. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angelou's childhood years were spent mute. 10. Which artist was struck in the face with a mallet by an envious rival, disfiguring him for life? A) Titian. B) Rembrandt. C) Raphael. D) Michelangelo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Michelangelo. 11. In which year did Maya Angelou recite her poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration? A) 1996. B) 1993. C) 1990. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1993. 12. How did Angelou turn a loss into a gain? A) She lost the first draft of her memoir but was able to rewrite it from memory. B) She was in a terrible accident as a child and learned to live with gratitude. C) She turned her painful memories into beloved books. D) She adopted a daughter after her mother died. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She turned her painful memories into beloved books. 13. What does the free bird symbolize? A) Injustice. B) Freedom. C) Racial discrimination. D) Slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freedom. 14. Claude Monet is most known for his painting of what? A) Ponds. B) Ballet Dancers. C) Mountains. D) Water Lilies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water Lilies. 15. Average. Which among the following kingdoms is considered as the most primitive? A) Monera. B) Plantae. C) Protists. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monera. 16. Though they're part of a larger stanza, the first four lines of the poem work as a [ ..... ] A) Free verse tercet. B) Rhymed quatrain. C) Prose poem. D) Rhymed couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhymed quatrain. 17. The poet knows around ..... A) Ten thousand women. B) Eleven thousand women. C) Twelve thousand women. D) Thirteen thousand women. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ten thousand women. 18. What is the connotative meaning of the word 'resilience' in Maya Angelou's texts? A) Inability to cope with challenges and give up easily. B) Ability to overcome adversity and bounce back from difficult situations. C) Lack of determination and perseverance in the face of obstacles. D) Tendency to dwell on past failures and not move forward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ability to overcome adversity and bounce back from difficult situations. 19. What was Maya Angelou's favorite thing in the world? A) Listening to music. B) Reading books. C) Watching movies. D) Playing sports. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reading books. 20. How did Maya Angelou show that she was determined? A) She worked with Martin Luther King Jr. to fight civil rights. B) She tried many new careers during her lifetime. C) She was the first African-American woman to write a best-selling book. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. What is the subject of the poem? A) Discrimination. B) Caged birds. C) Black people who lost their rights and freedom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black people who lost their rights and freedom. 22. What part of speech is "memoir" ? A) Verb. B) Adverb. C) Adjective. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noun. 23. Which one rhyme the most A) Cries and Eyes. B) May and Pat. C) Cake and Rat. D) Fish and dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cries and Eyes. 24. Affection is to love as ..... is to know. A) Familiarity. B) Sophistication. C) Aura. D) Infuse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Familiarity. 25. Angelou indirectly compares the work of women to the work of a slave A) True. B) False. C) Not sure yet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. Angelou had that much of her mom's character. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. In Still I Rise, Maya Angelou refers to "you", which stands for ..... A) Racist people. B) Her friends. C) Nice people. D) Her family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Racist people. 28. What part of speech is "pompous" ? A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adjective. 29. Talk informally about unimportant matters A) Aching. B) Stumbling. C) Chattering. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chattering. 30. Which is the first nonfiction bestseller by this African American woman? A) And still I rise. B) I know why the caged bird sings. C) Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I know why the caged bird sings. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesPoets QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMaya Angelou Quiz 1Maya Angelou Quiz 2Maya Angelou Quiz 3Maya Angelou Quiz 4Maya Angelou Quiz 5Maya Angelou Quiz 6Maya Angelou Quiz 7Maya Angelou Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books