This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is credited as the designer of many statues which decorated the Parthenon? A) Achilles. B) Phidias. C) Alexander. D) Leonidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phidias. 2. What does the speaker mean by the "gifts" that her ancestors gave? A) Her children. B) Her determination and strength. C) Artifacts. D) Wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her determination and strength. 3. Young Angelou has Just returned to San Francisco after an adrenture-filled trip. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. The speaker's attitude toward the junior students in paragraph 1 may be best described as A) Sharp disapproval. B) Mild criticism. C) Enthusiastic support. D) Pedantic evaluation. E) Sympathetic concern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mild criticism. 5. What is the author's purpose for writing the passage? A) To make you laugh. B) To create a new play. C) To teach you how to do something. D) To tell about Maya Angelou's life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To tell about Maya Angelou's life. 6. Why did Maya think that her grandmother had mistakenly identified the woman on the train platform as her mother? A) This woman was too short. B) This woman was a movie star. C) Maya did not think her mother was attractive. D) Maya did not consider herself to be pretty or cute, so she did not expect her mother to look like a movie star or to be tall and beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maya did not consider herself to be pretty or cute, so she did not expect her mother to look like a movie star or to be tall and beautiful. 7. Which famous painter cut off a part of his ear? A) Edouard Manet. B) Vincent Van Gogh. C) Wassily Kandisky. D) Mark Rothko. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vincent Van Gogh. 8. Easy. When is an atom stable? A) When it has full outer orbit. B) When it has the same amount of protons and electrons. C) When it has no neutrons. D) When it has an odd number of valence electrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When it has full outer orbit. 9. An excerpt is A) An exemption. B) To extinguish. C) An unabbreviated version of a text or film. D) A short extract of a text or film. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A short extract of a text or film. 10. Which word is an antonym of perceptive? A) Insightful. B) Discerning. C) Unobservant. D) Intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unobservant. 11. Maya said that kind words were much like a A) Flower. B) Rain. C) Hug. D) Rainbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hug. 12. What is an example of segregation? A) Excluding another race. B) Unity. C) Oneness. D) Togetherness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excluding another race. 13. The days ..... really quickly. A) Went on. B) Passed away. C) Went by. D) Gave up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went by. 14. Average. What is the substance formed in our muscles during the fermentation process of producing ATP in the absence of oxygen? A) Cortisol. B) Lactic acid. C) Water. D) Ammonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lactic acid. 15. Maya Angelou's book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was the first nonfiction best-seller written by an African-American woman. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. (Imagery) Pain appeals to what sense? A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Feel. D) Sight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feel. 17. The theme of both "New Directions" and "Woman Work" is centered around A) Women who see no way out of their difficult lives. B) Women who have the skills required to get good jobs. C) Women who realize they must make their own opportunities. D) Women who must struggle hard to survive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women who must struggle hard to survive. 18. Frederick Douglass fought for ALL kids to be able to go to school. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What is the connotative meaning of the word 'freedom' in Maya Angelou's texts? A) Oppression, fear, and inequality. B) Weakness, cowardice, and discrimination. C) Indifference, apathy, and injustice. D) Strength, courage, and the pursuit of equality tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strength, courage, and the pursuit of equality tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1. 20. Which of the following is used as a symbol of wealth in a poem? A) Oil wells. B) Gold mines. C) Diamonds. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. ← 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