This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was Maya Angelou's most popular memoir? A) A Million To One. B) Unique in every way. C) She didn't have one. D) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. E) Gather Together in My Name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 2. Jamie says that she doesn't like speaking in front of the class, but she always raises her hand. Perhaps she is just being ..... ? A) Coy. B) Intrepid. C) Transmitters. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coy. 3. What effect do the words 'Stalks, cage, rage clipped and tied? A) The caged bird as free and ready to claim what is his. B) The caged bird is limited and angry yet hopeful. C) The caged bird is to do as he wishes in his cage. D) The caged bird is proud to be kept in a cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The caged bird is limited and angry yet hopeful. 4. What lesson does Maya learn from her mother when she finally smiles for her? A) Maya learns how to look pretty. B) Maya learns to talk. C) Maya learns that being kind and charitable brings joy to both the giver and the receiver. D) Maya learns to buy her mother gifts to make her proud of her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maya learns that being kind and charitable brings joy to both the giver and the receiver. 5. What is the synonym for stiff? A) Rigid. B) Tired. C) Hard. D) Exhausted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rigid. 6. In stanza 2, the only rhyming words are ..... and ..... A) Stalks and through. B) Sing and tied. C) Rage and cage. D) Bird and bird. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rage and cage. 7. The word perceptive means: A) Set apart according to race. B) Able to comprehend through insight or intuition. C) Changed the nature of; reinvented. D) A ceremony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Able to comprehend through insight or intuition. 8. What is the overall message that Angelou delivers through her poem? A) Never resist your oppressors. B) Resist your oppressors and fight for the change. C) Listen and abide to your oppressors. D) Ignore your oppressors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resist your oppressors and fight for the change. 9. Was Maya's childhood easy? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 10. Women had replaced men on the streetcars as conductors and motormen. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. What part of speech is "commune" ? A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb. 12. Do you think he'll ever ..... and have a family? A) Set up. B) Settled down. C) Grew up. D) Turn up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Settled down. 13. I am the youngest Inaugural Poet in history. Who Am I? A) Elizabeth Alexander. B) Maya Angelou. C) Amanda Gorman. D) Richard Blanco. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amanda Gorman. 14. What do the two qualities of style have in common? A) They both involve treating others as you want to be treated. B) They both involve hard work. C) They both involve patience. D) They have nothing in common. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both involve treating others as you want to be treated. 15. How many autobiographis did she publish? A) 3. B) 17. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 16. She was the first African American A) Cable car conductor. B) Taxi driver. C) Tv presenter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cable car conductor. 17. True or False:She lived in Egypt for a peroid of time A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Who wrote "Mom & Me & Mom?" A) Mayans. B) Angel Langston. C) Maya Angelou. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maya Angelou. 19. What artist believed he was a reincarnation of his dead brother? A) Pablo Picasso. B) Vincent Van Gogh. C) Jackson Pollock. D) Salvador Dali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Salvador Dali. 20. Who gave Marguerite Annie Johnson the nickname Maya Angelou? A) Her grandfather. B) Her brother. C) Her mother. D) Her teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her brother. ← 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