A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long
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English
7th Grade
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This quiz focuses on poetry analysis and reading comprehension, specifically examining Nikki Giovanni's poem "A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long." The questions assess seventh-grade level literary analysis skills, requiring students to understand figurative language, identify allusions, make inferences about character and setting, interpret phrases in context, and analyze the poet's craft and tone. Students need a solid foundation in literary devices such as metaphor and allusion, the ability to use textual evidence to support inferences about characters and themes, and an understanding of how historical and social context influences literature. The quiz particularly emphasizes comprehension of the civil rights era setting and the significance of libraries and literacy in African American communities during segregation. Students must demonstrate higher-order thinking skills by analyzing the poet's purpose, interpreting symbolic language like "black coffee" and "hat in hand," and understanding how poetic form contributes to meaning and tone. Created by MCFOLLEY, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 7. This quiz serves as an excellent assessment tool for students studying poetry analysis and can be effectively used as a formative assessment after reading and discussing Giovanni's poem in class. Teachers can implement this as a follow-up activity to guided reading sessions, use it for homework to reinforce literary analysis skills, or deploy it as a review before summative assessments on poetry units. The quiz works particularly well for measuring student understanding of inference skills, textual analysis, and comprehension of historical context in literature. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1 for citing textual evidence to support analysis, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.4 for determining meaning of words and phrases including figurative language, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.9 for comparing and contrasting fictional and historical accounts, as students must understand the historical context of segregation to fully comprehend the poem's significance.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What was one effect of having "no tv before 3:00 P.M./And on Sunday none until 5:00"?
A. People read more books from the library.
B. People sat on their porches and talked.
C. People went to church more.
D. People were bored.
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.3
CCSS.RI.5.3
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.8.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What does the poet mean by "black coffee" (line 15)?
A. books by black authors
B. music by black musicians
C. easy listening music
D. something that was forbidden
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which lines of the poem contain an allusion to another literary work?
A. lines 10-14
B. lines 23-27
C. lines 28-31
D. lines 47-57
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why does the speaker prefer hardcover books to paperbacks (lines 21-22)?
A. They remind her of visiting the bookstore.
B. They remind her of Mrs. Long
C. They take her to faraway places
D. They remind her of her grandmother's house.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What made it challenging for Mrs. Long to go to "the big library uptown"?
A. The library was far away.
B. She had to get dressed up to go there.
C. People there would humiliate her.
D. There were no other black people there.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What does the phrase “Hat in hand” mean (line 31)?
A. humbly
B. deceitfully
C. boldly
D. reluctantly
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Why does the poet include the detail about Mrs. Long going to the big library?
A. to explain how the speaker got the books she asked for
B. to reveal something about Mrs. Long’s character
C. to criticize the behavior of southern whites
D. to show how poor her neighborhood library was
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
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