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

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

3. What technique is used in lines 7 and 8, "’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells/ Pumping in my living room"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Personification.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Simile.

4. In the final quatrain, what does the speaker wonder about upsetting "you" with?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Sexiness.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Beauty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker say she obtained her gifts?

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

3. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?

4. Which technique is frequently used at the beginnings of stanzas?

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

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