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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) Maya Angelou.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Nikki Giovanni.

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

3. What is the primary quality that the speaker's stanza eight description of a body of water is intended to convey?
(a) Persistence.
(b) Independence.
(c) Endurance.
(d) Power.

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

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

2. Which is the most logical description of who "You" is in line 1?

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

4. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?

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

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