This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How old was Maya Angelou when she passed away? A) 73. B) 80. C) 92. D) 86. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 86. 2. In stanza 1, what idea does Maya Angelou convey by using the words "serious" and "comedy" ? A) People have different personalities. B) These are opposite ways people act. C) Life is entertainment. D) People make different facial expressions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People have different personalities. 3. What was the first nonfiction best-selling book by an African-American woman? A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. B) Gather Together in My Name. C) Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. D) The Heart of a Woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 4. Pick the best synonym for the word shanty. A) Mansion. B) Abode. C) Hut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hut. 5. Easy. The flattened sacs that are present in the cell were discovered by ..... A) Ernst Haeckel. B) David Baltimore. C) Camillo Golgi. D) Rachel Carson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Camillo Golgi. 6. Antonyms:combine A) Imagery. B) Legacy. C) Segregate. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Segregate. 7. What are Primary Colors? A) A color that can't be made by mixing colors. B) A color that can be made using art. C) A color that can be made through light. D) A color that is present in the rainbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A color that can't be made by mixing colors. 8. Choose the synonym of the following words. autobiography, account A) Memoir. B) Resilience. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Memoir. 9. There are lots of harsh sounds in the first stanza of the poem, and lots of softer sounds in the remaining stanzas A) True. B) False. C) Not sure yet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Angelou's intellectual pride had kept her from selecting. A) Running. B) Writting. C) Speaking. D) Typing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Typing. 11. What is the name of one of the awards Maya Angelou won? A) Library Award. B) Famous Poem Award. C) Best Actress Award. D) Outstanding Literature Award. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outstanding Literature Award. 12. Quickly is to slowly as ..... is to occasionally. A) Familiarity. B) Incessantly. C) Illiteracy. D) Cascading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incessantly. 13. When did she publish "I know why the caged bird sings" ? A) 1978. B) 2017. C) 1969. D) 1980. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1969. 14. In stanza 9, what words invite the reader to be part of Maya Angelou's ideas in this poem? A) Alike and unalike. B) We and friends. C) We and alike. D) Friends and unalike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We and friends. 15. What did Maya study at the California Labor School? A) Cable cars. B) Dance and acting. C) Children. D) Engineering and math. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dance and acting. 16. What famous work of Mrs. Angelou's is honored on the tail side of the quarter? A) "Get me Out of School Soon". B) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.". C) I Love The Weekends. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.". 17. The content of stanza 3 is repeated in stanza 6. This repetition reveals that the bird A) Has resigned himself to an imprisoned life. B) Is now content, understanding that life in the cage is safer. C) Has never known freedom, but understands what it is and hopes for it. D) Sings a song of freedom that is not heard by others, but he accepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has never known freedom, but understands what it is and hopes for it. 18. When did Maya stop writing? A) Tired. B) Money. C) Death. D) Job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 19. Difficult. A pendulum which is suspended from the ceiling of a railroad car is observed to hang at an angle of 10 degrees to the right of vertical. Which of the following answers could explain this phenomenon? A) The railroad car is at rest. B) The railroad car is accelerating to the left. C) The railroad car is moving with constant velocity to the right. D) The railroad car is accelerating to the right. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The railroad car is accelerating to the left. 20. "Volunteers fell over themselves to secure replacements for the missing equipment" (par.1) is an example of A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesMaya Angelou Quiz 1Maya Angelou Quiz 2Maya Angelou Quiz 3Maya Angelou Quiz 4Maya Angelou Quiz 5Maya Angelou Quiz 6Maya Angelou Quiz 7Maya Angelou Quiz 8Maya Angelou Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books