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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. Which technique is frequently used at the beginnings of stanzas?
(a) Internal rhyme.
(b) Rhetorical question.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Cacophony.

2. What kind of "certainty" does the speaker claim to have in line 10?
(a) The "certainty of history."
(b) The "certainty of tides."
(c) The "certainty of air."
(d) The "certainty of springtime."

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

4. What technique is used in line 21, "You may shoot me with your words"?
(a) Innuendo.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Kenning.

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) Juxtaposition.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 17, what kind of a person is described by the word "haughtiness"?

2. In the final quatrain, what does the speaker wonder about upsetting "you" with?

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

4. What technique is used in line 29, "Out of the huts of history’s shame"?

5. Which is the best definition of "beset" in line 6?

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