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- 1. Multiple Choice
What figurative language did the author use the most?
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
- 2. Multiple Choice
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
- 3. Multiple Choice
Where was the author born?
Michigan
Santa Fe
Texas
Arizona
- 4. Multiple Choice
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
- 5. Multiple Choice
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
- 6. Multiple Choice
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
- 7. Multiple Choice
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
- 8. Multiple Choice
The author uses artillery as a metaphor. Why does she choose this word as her comparison?
your were the caravan master at the reins
driving your thread needle artillery across the
She believes in it's strength compared to the strength of the quilt
She believes it is best way to describe her mother
She is actually talking about a weapon and not using a metaphor
She believes that the artillery is her mother-powerful
- 9. Multiple Choice
In the line
sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years
The word taut means:
weapon
used with force
pulled tight
ready to use
- 10. Multiple Choice
What does the quilt represent to the author?
Her life story
Her parents story before her
nothing
memories of her past
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