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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 7 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.
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) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.
3. What is the primary quality that the speaker's stanza eight description of a body of water is intended to convey?
(a) Power.
(b) Independence.
(c) Persistence.
(d) Endurance.
4. In line 17, what kind of a person is described by the word "haughtiness"?
(a) Mean-spirited and petty.
(b) Sneaky and dishonest.
(c) Arrogant and proud.
(d) Strange and eccentric.
5. Which technique is frequently used at the beginnings of stanzas?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Rhetorical question.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Internal rhyme.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is the speaker's past "rooted in pain" (line 32)?
2. What words create a refrain in the final two stanzas of the poem?
3. What body of water does the speaker claim to be in the eighth stanza?
4. What precious stones does the speaker use to evoke beauty and value in the simile in line 27?
5. What technique is used in line 29, "Out of the huts of history’s shame"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the pattern that stanzas 2, 4, 5, and 7 have in common.
2. What specific historical phenomenon does the speaker talk about rising above in the final two stanzas, and what allusion does she use to introduce the topic?
3. What oppressive actions does the speaker suggest "you" might take, and how does she say she will respond?
4. In the final stanza, what metaphor does the speaker use, and what does it signify?
5. Why is the poem titled "Still I Rise" and not just "I Rise"--what additional idea does the word "Still" convey?
6. Describe how the final two stanzas of the poem differ from the first seven stazas.
7. What do all of the questions the speaker asks have in common?
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