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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 river.
(c) A lake.
(d) A stream.

2. What technique is used in line 29, "Out of the huts of history’s shame"?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Oxymoron.

3. Which technique is used in line 9, "Just like moons and like suns"?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Dialect.

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

5. 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."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme of the first seven stanzas?

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

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

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

5. How does the speaker characterize herself in line 4?

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