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

2. 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.

3. Which is the best definition of "beset" in line 6?
(a) Troubled.
(b) Decorated.
(c) Cradled.
(d) Inspired.

4. In the fourth stanza, what kind of person does the speaker ask if "you" want her to be?
(a) Tired and distracted.
(b) Sad and meek.
(c) Angry and afraid.
(d) Distant and uninvolved.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What body of water does the speaker claim to be in the eighth stanza?

4. What is the primary quality that the speaker's stanza eight description of a body of water is intended to convey?

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

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