Still I Rise Quiz

What is the poem mainly about?

• It's about a lady still rising.
• It's about a lady who is falling.
• It's about a lady who is experiencing segregation.
• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

What is the Poet is implying when she says 
"You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise."

• She is saying that even though she's facing discrimination she will still overcome it.
• She is saying that you can talk about her, but words won't kill her.
• She won't rise because of discrimination.
• I don't know

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why did she face discrimination?

• Because she was dense.
• Because she was African American.
• Because she lived during segregation.
• Because she was American.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

"Does my haughtiness offend you? 
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard."
What word has the same meaning as haughtiness is used in this stanza?

• Modesty
• Meekness
• Arrogance
• Respect

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why do you think the poet wrote this poem?

• To describe how she agreed with the discriminatory actions.
• To become known.
• To describe how she felt about her surroundings.
• To describe what segregation was like.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.8.2

Read the stanza from the poem.
'Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise. "
Why does she repeat "I rise?"

• To emphasize.
• To understate.
• To depreciate.
• To forget.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

Who wrote this poem?

• Robert Frost
• Mrs. Brown
• Maya Angelou
• Langston Hughes

Who wouldn't feel exasperated about this poem?

• African Americans
• White
• Caucasion
• Americans

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is a poem?

• Beauty
• Love
• A story told by someone.
• a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

What kind of poem has no rules?

• Free Style
• Nonsense
• Haiku
• Couplet