This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Memoirs are always written in which point of view? A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) This is a trick question. Memoirs can be written in any point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 2. Who was the person responsible of raising Maya? A) Mother. B) Father. C) Sister. D) Grandmother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grandmother. 3. The point of view in Life Doesn't Frighten Me is: A) 1st Person (I/Me). B) 3rd Person (He/She/They). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st Person (I/Me). 4. "The challenges in her early life led Maya to become mute. She did not speak for almost 5 years."Using context clues, what is the meaning of the word mute? A) She was not able to hear. B) She was not able to see. C) She was an excellent writer. D) She was not able to speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was not able to speak. 5. Maya Angelou was a famous A) New Yorker. B) Washingtonian. C) North Carolinian. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North Carolinian. 6. Easy. Bioamplification/Biomagnification is when toxin levels get higher at each trophic level. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Which president did Frederick Douglass get to meet? A) Bill Clinton. B) George Washington. C) John F Kennedy. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Lincoln. 8. An essay is A) An unabridged version of a text. B) A short piece of writing on a particular subject. C) A social studies text. D) An piece of writing composed of stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A short piece of writing on a particular subject. 9. What is the connotative meaning of the phrase 'rising above' in Maya Angelou's texts? A) To overcome challenges or adversity and achieve personal growth or success. B) To succumb to challenges and adversity and experience failure or regression. C) To ignore challenges and adversity and remain stagnant. D) To sink deeper into challenges and adversity without any personal growth or success. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To overcome challenges or adversity and achieve personal growth or success. 10. How was Maya able to overcome being abandoned? A) Her mother bought her lots of gifts to make up for it. B) Maya never got over it; she's still bitter. C) She realized her mother really did love her. D) Maya's brother helped her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She realized her mother really did love her. 11. What happened in 1940? A) She wrote her best known autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. B) She became the northern coordinator for a Christian Leadership Conference. C) She graduated from Lafayette County Training School. D) Her parents got divorced and she went to live with her grandma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She graduated from Lafayette County Training School. 12. Which phrase from Maya Angelou's "The Lesson" is an example of an abstraction rather than a concrete image? A) "Small fists of sleeping / Children". B) "old tombs". C) "The challenge". D) "Lines along my face". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The challenge". 13. Identify a connotative word used by Maya Angelou to describe empowerment. A) Incredible. B) Extraordinary. C) Amazing. D) Phenomenal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phenomenal. 14. The grave of dreams represents A) A feeling of ignorance. B) The possibility for the future. C) Where the bird will die. D) A feeling of hopelessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A feeling of hopelessness. 15. What is maya's real name? A) Maya angelou. B) Marguerite Johnson. C) None of the above. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marguerite Johnson. 16. Which line shows how very determined the speaker is to never show fear? A) Lines 25-26. B) Lines 15-16. C) Lines 7-8. D) Lines 39-40. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines 39-40. 17. Graffiti originated from an Italian word. What does it mean? A) Spray painted. B) Scratched. C) Sketched. D) Sculpted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scratched. 18. In the poem "Caged Bird" the free bird symbolizes people who ..... A) Are able to choose their own direction in life. B) Are wealthy and can travel to new places. C) Are always busy, like the woman in "Woman Work" . D) Have made dangerous choices in their lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are able to choose their own direction in life. 19. The artist Kandisky is considered the first for this type of art A) Dadaism. B) Contemporary art. C) Abstract. D) Futurism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abstract. 20. What was the name of her most famous work? A) I Have A Pet Bird. B) Bird Cages. C) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. D) Birds. 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