This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Gwendolyn Brooks > Gwendolyn Brooks – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. REREAD pg. 145 of your text. In Stanza 1 of the poem, which word is the speaker repeating? A) First. B) Home. C) Tree. D) Pack. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tree. 2. What is the name of the HUGE prize that Gwendolyn won for writing poetry? A) First Prize. B) Emmy. C) Oscar. D) Pulitzer Prize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pulitzer Prize. 3. Gwendolyn Brooks would write about her own life experiences? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Caged bird:Which of these words best describes the emotional state of the caged bird? A) Angry, longing. B) Downtrodden, given up. C) Upset, annoyed. D) Confused, saddened. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angry, longing. 5. Where was Gwendolyn Brooks born? A) Ball, Kansas. B) Chicago, Illinois. C) Blue Island, Illinois. D) Kansas City, Missouri. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball, Kansas. 6. How is a poem different from a story? A) Its funny. B) Its colorful. C) It has stanzas, rhythm, rhyming, repetition, and imagery. D) Its a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has stanzas, rhythm, rhyming, repetition, and imagery. 7. When was Gwendolyn Brooks Born? A) June 17, 1917. B) June 7, 1917. C) July 7, 1917. D) January 7, 1917. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) June 7, 1917. 8. What reason tells you that the author thought the Black Arts Movement was important to the story? A) She talked about Gwendoyln Brooks being an important part of the Black Arts Movement. B) Gwendolyn Brooks loved to read her poems wherever she was. C) She gave the advice, "Talk about what you wonder.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She talked about Gwendoyln Brooks being an important part of the Black Arts Movement. 9. Where is Gwendolyn Brooks from? A) Chicago, Illinois. B) Manhattan, New York. C) Detroit, Michigan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chicago, Illinois. 10. What does stretch out or apart mean? A) Scolding. B) Might. C) Spread. D) Lonely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spread. 11. Gwendolyn Brooks would write about ..... A) Life for African Americans before the Civil Rights Movement. B) Life for affluent African Americans. C) Life for all Americans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life for African Americans before the Civil Rights Movement. 12. Which poem by Gwendolyn Brooks explores themes of youth, rebellion, and morality? A) We Real Cool. B) In the Mecca. C) The Bean Eaters. D) A Street in Bronzeville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We Real Cool. 13. Which word means without company or alone? A) Stamp. B) Lonely. C) Might. D) Spread. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lonely. 14. What does "the home" symbolize in the text? A) It symbolizes perseverance and shame. B) It symbolizes isolation and desperation. C) It symbolizes country living and expensive rent. D) It symbolizes familiarity and family togetherness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It symbolizes familiarity and family togetherness. 15. A sonnet consists of A) 10 lines. B) 12 lines. C) 14 lines. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14 lines. 16. What is am iamb? A) The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ). B) A literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables). C) A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables). 17. Vocabulary:Before winter comes, we always need to do the ..... for the furnace. A) Firing. B) Obstinate. C) Flat. D) Extension. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Firing. 18. Gwendolyn Brooks was a Civil Rights Champion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What type of story of was this? A) Fiction. B) Non-Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-Fiction. 20. What was Gwendolyn's first book of poems written about? A) Atlanta. B) Bronzeville. C) Nashville. D) Murfreesboro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bronzeville. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesGwendolyn Brooks Quiz 1Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 2Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 3Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 5Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 6Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books