Maya Angelou Quiz 4 (20 MCQs)

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1. In stanza 8, what is the meaning of "In minor ways we differ / in major we're the same."

Correct Answer: A) .There are small, unimportant things that are different about us, but in all the most important ways, we are the same.

2. The phrase "still I rise" that is repeated throughout the poem is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Pattern.

3. What was Maya Angelou's birth name?

Correct Answer: D) Marguerite.

4. Why is Angelou afraid to tell Dr. King about her brother?

Correct Answer: A) She is afraid of how he will react and that he might lose respect for her.

5. Maya's poems often had themes of racial discrimination, confidence, beauty, and .....

Correct Answer: A) The human spirit.

6. A figure of speech that compares two different things without the words "like" or "as."

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

7. Drifting is to snow as ..... is to water.

Correct Answer: A) Cascading.

8. A pattern of stressed syllables

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

9. Which area was she born in?

Correct Answer: A) St.Louis.

10. Language that means something other than its literal meaning and expresses ideas in vivid ways.

Correct Answer: B) Figurative language.

11. When was Maya Angelou's death?

Correct Answer: C) 2014.

12. The movement from paragraphs 5 to 6 involves a shift in

Correct Answer: A) Point of view.

13. She was ..... by her grands parents.

Correct Answer: C) Brought up.

14. Why does the speaker of the poem make a list: "Bad dogs, Big ghosts, mean Old Mother Goose, Lions on the loose" ?

Correct Answer: B) To help us understand her age.

15. Why is "Kissy little girls/with their hair in curls" in lines 30-31 in parentheses?

Correct Answer: A) Maybe she is quoting what the boys said when they pulled her hair.

16. An inheritance or gift; something handed down from an ancestor or from the past.

Correct Answer: B) Legacy.

17. "the huts of history's shame" is example of which literary device?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

18. Language that describes something very vividly so that readers can understand it with their senses.

Correct Answer: D) Imagery.

19. Disease is to medicine as ..... is to education.

Correct Answer: C) Illiteracy.

20. Which abstract expressionist was known for using the "drip technique or drip and splash" ?

Correct Answer: C) Jackson Pollock.