"My Mother Pieced Quilts"
Authored by DESIREE KACHEL
English
8th Grade
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This quiz focuses on the poem "My Mother Pieced Quilts" by Teresa Palomo Acosta and is designed for 8th grade students studying poetry analysis and literary interpretation. The questions assess students' ability to identify and analyze figurative language, particularly metaphors and their deeper meanings within the context of family relationships and cultural heritage. Students need to demonstrate comprehension of extended metaphor, where quilts serve as symbols for family history, love, and memories. The quiz requires students to make connections between specific textual evidence and thematic elements, analyze word choice and connotation, understand vocabulary in context, and interpret how authors use concrete objects to represent abstract concepts. Students must engage in close reading skills to support their interpretations with specific lines from the poem and understand how personal narrative poetry conveys universal themes about family bonds and cultural preservation. Created by Desiree Kachel, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 8. This quiz serves as an excellent formative assessment tool following a close reading unit on contemporary poetry that explores themes of family and heritage. Teachers can use this assessment as a post-reading comprehension check, homework assignment, or review activity before a larger unit test on poetry analysis. The quiz effectively measures students' mastery of essential literary analysis skills including metaphor interpretation, textual evidence identification, and thematic understanding. The questions align with Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1 for citing textual evidence to support analysis, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2 for determining themes and analyzing their development, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4 for determining the meaning of words and phrases including figurative language. This assessment provides teachers with clear data on student comprehension while reinforcing critical thinking skills necessary for advanced literary analysis.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What figurative language did the author use the most?
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The authors mentions canvases several times. What is she referring to?
an actual canvas
the quilts
the pieces used for the quilt
a piece of art
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.L.8.4A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Where was the author born?
Michigan
Santa Fe
Texas
Arizona
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.6.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What does the line "you were the river current" say about how the author feels?
She does not like her mother
She calls her mother a river current because she has no structure
She believes her mother is the driving force of the family
She likes how her mother flows from day to day
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which text evidence proves the line
"oh mother you plunged me sobbing..."?
Stretched out they lay/...knotted with love
galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in/as you did us at night
in the evening you sat at your canvas/--our cracked linoleum floor the drawing board
somber black silk you wore to grandmother's funeral/...into tuberculosis wards
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What lines help prove the theme of this poem?
"knotted with love/ the quilts sing one"
"sewn har and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-/five years
but it was just that every morning I awoke to/these october ripened canvases
me lounging on your arm/and you staking out the plan
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.9
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What was the original purpose of the quilts?
as covers to keep warm in winter
as a story
to make sure the family holds onto the memories of their past
to have around the house just in case
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.2
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