Maya Angelou Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was here child's name?

Correct Answer: C) Guy.

2. How many times has the Mona Lisa been stolen?

Correct Answer: A) Once.

3. Which word means the same as resided, as it is used in the passage?

Correct Answer: C) Lived.

4. Is the poet the only person who feels alone?

Correct Answer: B) No.

5. How do the writing styles of Maya Angelou's poem and Lou Gehrig's speech DIFFER?

Correct Answer: C) Angelou's is poetic, Gehrig's is direct and conversational.

6. Maya Angelou was from a wealthy, white British family

Correct Answer: B) False.

7. Helen Keller and Maya Angelou read a poem at Bill Clinton's 2014 Inauguration.

Correct Answer: B) False.

8. I've nearly ..... of money.

Correct Answer: B) Run out.

9. Which president did Maya Angelou write a poem for?

Correct Answer: D) Bill Clinton.

10. Drawn from different sources

Correct Answer: A) Eclectic.

11. What is the main conflict in this poem?

Correct Answer: B) The caged bird longs for the life of the free bird.

12. How did books make Maya feel?

Correct Answer: A) Better.

13. The same rhyme scheme continues throughout the poem

Correct Answer: B) False.

14. Easy. An ion is formed when an atom loses/gains an electron.

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. Easy. The energy possessed by a body due to its position is called its .....

Correct Answer: C) Potential energy.

16. Analyze what the speaker means in lines 37-40, when she says she has a "magic charm" that she "keeps up her sleeve."

Correct Answer: A) She has a secret solution to her problem.

17. Pick the best antonym for the word punctual.

Correct Answer: C) Late.

18. Maya loved

Correct Answer: A) Words.

19. Which word describes Maya Angelou?

Correct Answer: B) Creative.

20. In Still I Rise, Maya Angelou calls herself a "black ocean", which means .....

Correct Answer: D) She is a strong black woman.