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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Still I Rise," Lines 1 - 43 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What body of water does the speaker claim to be in the eighth stanza?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A lake.
(c) A stream.
(d) A river.

2. In line 17, what kind of a person is described by the word "haughtiness"?
(a) Arrogant and proud.
(b) Sneaky and dishonest.
(c) Mean-spirited and petty.
(d) Strange and eccentric.

3. What techniques are used in line 19, "’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines"?
(a) Alliteration and assonance.
(b) Assonance and sibilance.
(c) Onomatopoeia and alliteration.
(d) Sibilance and onomatopoeia.

4. What is the primary quality that the speaker's stanza eight description of a body of water is intended to convey?
(a) Persistence.
(b) Endurance.
(c) Power.
(d) Independence.

5. What technique is used in lines 7 and 8, "’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells/ Pumping in my living room"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Juxtaposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?

2. Which two things does the final stanza use to represent the past and present?

3. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?

4. In the fourth stanza, what kind of person does the speaker ask if "you" want her to be?

5. What words create a refrain in the final two stanzas of the poem?

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