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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 techniques are used in line 19, "’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines"?
(a) Alliteration and assonance.
(b) Sibilance and onomatopoeia.
(c) Assonance and sibilance.
(d) Onomatopoeia and alliteration.

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) Power.
(c) Independence.
(d) Persistence.

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

4. In the fourth stanza, what kind of person does the speaker ask if "you" want her to be?
(a) Distant and uninvolved.
(b) Tired and distracted.
(c) Angry and afraid.
(d) Sad and meek.

5. In line 17, what kind of a person is described by the word "haughtiness"?
(a) Mean-spirited and petty.
(b) Strange and eccentric.
(c) Sneaky and dishonest.
(d) Arrogant and proud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "beset" in line 6?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Still I Rise"?

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

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