This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Average. Two students are pulling at a box in opposite directions. The box does not move. Why? A) The inertia of the object is larger than the inertia of the two students combined. B) The opposite forces applied by the students are balanced. C) The normal force of the box is larger than the applied force of one of the students. D) Both the students are applying the force in the same direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The opposite forces applied by the students are balanced. 2. Publicly praised or recognized as talented A) Acclaimed. B) Legendary. C) Crossover. D) Dubious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acclaimed. 3. What is the message in the poem A) Maya is represented as the caged bird. B) Maya is represented as the free bird. C) The poem message is talking about hope. D) The poem message is talking about honesty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maya is represented as the caged bird. 4. The literal meaning of heart is A) The muscular organ in the chest that pumps blood throughout the body. B) A person 's deepest feelings or true personality; love and affection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The muscular organ in the chest that pumps blood throughout the body. 5. Synonyms autobiography, account A) Memoir. B) Figurative language. C) Metaphor. D) Resilience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Memoir. 6. Which of the following excerpts from "New Directions" best illustrates the point Angelou is making in "Caged Bird" when she writes "his wings are clipped and his feet are tied" ? A) "They parted amicably, Annie keeping the one-room house ". B) "She had indeed stepped from the road ". C) "The burdensome fact that Mrs. Johnson was a Negro ". D) "She told me herself that she wasn't a fancy cook.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The burdensome fact that Mrs. Johnson was a Negro ". 7. How are the slaves from the working fields the same as the caged bird in the poem? A) They both sing songs of freedom. B) They both yearn for new beginnings. C) They both fly in the sky. D) They both gain freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They both yearn for new beginnings. 8. The poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All, is told from the perspective of who? A) An old woman. B) An adult. C) A teenager. D) A child. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A child. 9. Paragraph 10 includes each of the following in EXCEPT A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Imagery. E) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Paradox. 10. How was Vivian Baxter (Maya's mom) different from Maya's grandmother? A) She was older and meaner. B) She was nicer. C) She was more patient. D) She danced and wore lipstick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She danced and wore lipstick. 11. Angelou thought life was Cheap and death entirely free. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. What happened in 1970? A) Her parents got divorced and she lived with her grandma. B) She graduated from Lafayette County Training School. C) She was the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. D) She wrote her best known autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She wrote her best known autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. 13. My legs turned to jelly. A) Literal. B) Figurative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 14. The name "Maya" came from A) A childhood nickname. B) Her favorite children's book. C) Her mother's side of the family. D) A popular song from the 1940s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A childhood nickname. 15. "He had an easy friendliness, what was unsettling" This line is an example of- A) Indirect Characterization. B) Direct Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Characterization. 16. What did Maya enjoy doing? A) Love to sing. B) Love to eat. C) Love to read. D) Love to skate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love to read. 17. What was Maya Angelou son name A) Tylia Robinson. B) Kaleb Cooper. C) Guy Johnson. D) Tyrone Robinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guy Johnson. 18. Which phrase in the poem indicates "jumping for joy" ? A) "The free bird thinks of another breeze". B) "for the caged bird sings of freedom.". C) "A free bird leaps on the back of the wind". D) "floats downstream till the current ends". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "A free bird leaps on the back of the wind". 19. Which stanza is the longest? A) First. B) Second. C) Third. D) Fourth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First. 20. Anna May Wong was a school teacher. A) True. B) False. 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