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

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

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

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

5. What kind of "certainty" does the speaker claim to have in line 10?
(a) The "certainty of tides."
(b) The "certainty of springtime."
(c) The "certainty of history."
(d) The "certainty of air."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two things does the final stanza use to represent the past and present?

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

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

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

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

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