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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. Who is the author of "Still I Rise"?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Nikki Giovanni.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Toni Morrison.

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

3. How does the speaker characterize herself in line 4?
(a) Intelligent and curious.
(b) Brave and perseverent.
(c) Lively and confident.
(d) Lighthearted and silly.

4. 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 springtime."
(d) The "certainty of air."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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