Amanda Gorman, Inaugural Poet

Amanda Gorman was the first person to be named ________________________.

• National Youth Poet Laureate

• American Poet Emeritus

• Lisa Barnaddabus Powell Ferlinghetti

• to the United Nations Youth Council

When Amanda Gorman read her poetry at Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris' inauguration, she was:

• 23 years old

• 15 years old

• 173 years old

• 30 years old

At the inauguration, she delivered her poem ______________________.

• "The Hill We Climb"

• "On the Pulse of Morning"

• "The Gift Outright"

• "Jabberwocky"

Amanda Gorman was raised by: _____________________.

• her single mother

• her single father

• her grandmother

• Her mother and father

Amanda Gorman grew up doing very little of what?

• watching TV

• worrying about what to wear

• reading

• playing games

Gorman has a(n) _____________________ and is hypersensitive to sound.

• auditory processing disorder

• dialectic coding disorder

• pet owl

• speech disorder

During childhood, Gorman used songs as a form of speech therapy.

She says: "My favorite thing to practice was the song _______________ from Hamilton...

• 'Aaron Burr, Sir'

• 'My Rott Has Lots of Spots'

• 'Awesome, wow!'

• 'What'd I Miss?'

Gorman studied sociology at _________________.

• Harvard

• Yale

• Ohio University

• Dartmouth

Gorman said she intends to ______________________ in 2036.

• run for president

• run for Governor of California

• become Chief Librarian at the Library of Congress

• start a school for Black youth with disabilities

Gorman believes there is a connection between her ____________ and her poetry.

• fashion

• hometown, Los Angeles,

• love of strawberries

• shoes