This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Maya Angelou > Maya Angelou – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maya Angelou Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ending of "New Directions" is A) Sad because the family will never get out of poverty. B) Uplifting because it encourages people to take charge of their lives. C) Filled with anger because of all the injustice in the world. D) Challenging because it recommends that people do as they are expected to do. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uplifting because it encourages people to take charge of their lives. 2. Use of the material aspects of words into particular repetitive forms A) Stanza. B) Rhythm. C) Elements. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pattern. 3. In stanza 2, Maya Angelou uses alliteration. What is alliteration? A) When the last part of the word is the same. B) When words with the same starting letter are close together in a line. C) When words are written again and again. D) When words rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When words with the same starting letter are close together in a line. 4. The Greek sailor was named A) Tosh anglou. B) Max angelou. C) Jerry angelou. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tosh anglou. 5. Why is Maya considered a civil rights activist? A) She was a freelance writer. B) She was always active with jobs such as fry cook, waitress, cable car conductor, editor, and many more!. C) She acted in many plays, movies, and TV shows. D) She worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the 1960s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the 1960s. 6. What is the poem talking about? A) Teenagers. B) Parents. C) Senior citizens. D) Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Senior citizens. 7. What is the name of Maya Angelou's father? A) Bailey Johnson. B) Bailey Johnon. C) Bailey Johson. D) Baley Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bailey Johnson. 8. Who was Maya Angelou's closest family member and friend growing up? A) Her mother. B) Her grandmother. C) Her brother Bailey. D) Her uncle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her brother Bailey. 9. Angelou's grandmother got her business started by ..... A) Cooking and doing laundry for rich people. B) Getting a small loan from the local bank. C) Setting up a mobile lunch counter. D) Having her grandchildren sell her meat pies door-to-door. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting up a mobile lunch counter. 10. Which of the following is NOT a central idea of this poem. A) We are more alike than we are unalike. B) The human family is a way to see our similarities instead of our differences. C) The world is a diverse family who shares many similarities of being human. D) No matter what happens, we can make it through the hard times. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No matter what happens, we can make it through the hard times. 11. In stanza 3, what do "brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white" symbolize? A) Descriptions of cultures. B) Emotions. C) Colors of the rainbow. D) Different races. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Different races. 12. What does the caged bird symbolize? A) Restrictive movement. B) Freedom. C) People are in jail. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Restrictive movement. 13. What kind of question does the speaker pose to her audience in the two following lines from "Still I Rise?" Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom? A) Rhetorical. B) Rhizomatic. C) Rhapsodical. D) Rheumatoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical. 14. Where does the clip show Maya Angelou? A) Las Vegas. B) The White House. C) New York City. D) The Angels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The White House. 15. In Maya Angelou's writings, what is the connotation of the word 'courage'? A) Fear and weakness. B) Cowardice and vulnerability. C) Timidity and fragility. D) Bravery and strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bravery and strength. 16. The poem also often uses [ ..... ]and imperfect rhymes A) Slant rhymes. B) Eye rhyme. C) Rich rhyme. D) Walking rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhymes. 17. What kind of work did Maya Angelou NOT do when she was young? A) Mechanic. B) Cook. C) Dancer. D) Streetcar conductor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanic. 18. Was she afraid of anything? A) NOOOO. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NOOOO. 19. "The snow is a white blanket" is a ..... because it compares the snow to a blanket. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Memoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. What Impact do these devices have on the meaning? A) Prompts a reflection on humanity. B) Emphasizes the story. C) Strengthens the narrative. D) Don't have a impact. 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