This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Gwendolyn Brooks > Gwendolyn Brooks – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where did she Graduate College? A) Woodrow Wilson Junior College. B) Stonehill College. C) St. Marys College. D) Kansas State University. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Woodrow Wilson Junior College. 2. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American woman to win this prize ..... what was it named? A) Booker Prize. B) Edgar Award. C) Pulitzer Prize. D) Nobel Prize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulitzer Prize. 3. Vocabulary:I need an ..... on my assignment because I'm not finished. A) Obstinate. B) Flat. C) Firing. D) Extension. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extension. 4. What does Vacant mean? A) Having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants; empty. B) Full of life and color. C) A place where you store old books. D) Looking into a mystery or searching for something lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants; empty. 5. In the Poem "Lyle", how many homes has the speaker waved goodby to? A) 5. B) 10. C) 8. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 6. In the dark:What is the misunderstanding in the final section of the poem? A) The narrator is afraid of the therapist and screams at her during their session. B) The therapist thinks the narrator is an intruder rather than a patient. C) The narrator goes to a therapy appointment but knocks at the wrong person's door. D) The therapist forgot about her appointment with the narrator, which causes her to yell in surprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The therapist thinks the narrator is an intruder rather than a patient. 7. Vocabulary:Damian likes living on a high floor because his ..... receives lots of sunlight. A) Obstinate. B) Firing. C) Extension. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat. 8. How did Gwendolyn Brooks's dream come true? A) She had a school named after her. B) She became a poet. C) She helped many writers and inspired black poets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She helped many writers and inspired black poets. 9. What does the word example mean? A) Something that is unfair. B) Liking something more than something else. C) Showing how to do something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Showing how to do something. 10. Rudolph wanted to move to the country to spread his arms because it was too crowded in the city. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. "The door opened with a creak" is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 12. When Gwendolyn was eleven she had her first poems published. Where were they printed? A) On television. B) In a textbook. C) On Tik Tok. D) In the neighborhood newspaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the neighborhood newspaper. 13. Which Poem earned her the Pulitzer Prize? A) We real Cool. B) Annie Allen. C) Maud Martha. D) Eventide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annie Allen. 14. What was the racial prejudice that Gwendolyn Brooks encountered during her education? A) Because she was a woman. B) Because she was black. C) Because she was young. D) Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because she was black. 15. "The library after hours was as silent as the grave" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. What does the word numerous mean? A) Liking something more than something else. B) Having a lot of something. C) Showing how to do something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having a lot of something. 17. What was the writer's purpose for this story? A) To tell about Gwendolyn's teaching career. B) Telling us everything about the Black Arts Movement. C) To tell how Gwendolyn Brooks's life and how she important to the Black Arts Movement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To tell how Gwendolyn Brooks's life and how she important to the Black Arts Movement. 18. What does the word extension mean in this sentence from the passage?"If he had not succeed in getting another extension they would be leaving this house in which they had lived for more than fourteen years." A) An outward movement of the leg. B) A structural addition to a house. C) A larger amount of space. D) Extra time to repay a debt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extra time to repay a debt. 19. The repetition of sound at the end of the words is called? A) Stanza. B) Beat. C) Rhyming. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. What does staccato mean? A) Short, quick, and detached from others. B) Long and drawn out. 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