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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) A river.
(b) A stream.
(c) A lake.
(d) An ocean.

2. What precious stones does the speaker use to evoke beauty and value in the simile in line 27?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Rubies.
(c) Emeralds.
(d) Sapphires.

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the first seven stanzas?
(a) ABCB.
(b) ABAC.
(c) ABAB.
(d) ABBA.

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

5. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Catalog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of "certainty" does the speaker claim to have in line 10?

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

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

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

5. Which technique is used in line 9, "Just like moons and like suns"?

(see the answer key)

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