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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. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Catalog.

2. 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."

3. Which is the best definition for "trod" in the context of line 3?
(a) Press down with the foot.
(b) Drag along the floor or earth.
(c) Throw or hurl downward.
(d) The sound of footsteps.

4. 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.

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first seven stanzas?
(a) ABAB.
(b) ABBA.
(c) ABAC.
(d) ABCB.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the speaker characterize herself in line 4?

2. What technique is used in lines 7 and 8, "’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells/ Pumping in my living room"?

3. Why is the speaker's past "rooted in pain" (line 32)?

4. Which technique is used in line 9, "Just like moons and like suns"?

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

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