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

2. What body of water does the speaker claim to be in the eighth stanza?
(a) A lake.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A river.
(d) A stream.

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) Power.
(c) Independence.
(d) Endurance.

4. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

5. Which technique is frequently used at the beginnings of stanzas?
(a) Internal rhyme.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Rhetorical question.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the best definition for "trod" in the context of line 3?

3. What technique is used in line 21, "You may shoot me with your words"?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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