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

2. Where does the speaker say she obtained her gifts?
(a) From the passage of time.
(b) From effort and hard work.
(c) From her ancestors.
(d) From well-chosen friends.

3. What words create a refrain in the final two stanzas of the poem?
(a) "I rise and rise."
(b) "I rise."
(c) "Still I rise."
(d) "Again I rise."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the speaker's past "rooted in pain" (line 32)?

2. Who is the author of "Still I Rise"?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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