I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - MCQ 1

1. Maya Angelou is a powerful feminist writer of _______ ethnicity.
a. British-American
b. Afro-American
c. Black-White
d. American
2. ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ was written in the year ________.
a. 1961
b. 1699
c. 1996
d. 1619
3. What does the bird in the cage symbolize?

a. African Americans’ struggle for fame.
b. African Americans’ fight for land.
c. African Americans and their fight for freedom.
d. African Americans’ victory in their struggle.
4. The poem compares the liberty of the free bird with that of ________.
a. The shackled caged one
b. The bird singing happy songs
c. The bird claiming the sky
d. The bird who cannot sing
5. ‘A free bird floats downstream till the current ends’, means ________.
a. The free bird leaps on the back of the wind as if it is floating on the back
of a current
of water.
b. The free bird leaps on the back of the wind until the water keeps flowing.
c. The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and also swims along with
the current of
water.
d. The free bird leaps on the back of the wind as if it is soaking itself in
water.
6. Which of the following actions can the caged bird perform?

a. Float downstream and dip his wings in sun rays
b. Stalk down and sing a fearful trill
c. Stalk down and float downstream
d. Dip his wing in sun rays and see through narrow cage
7. The caged bird sings of __________.

a. Distant hill
b. Things unknown but longed for still
c. Another breeze on distant hill
d. Fat worms
8. Why must be the bird’s cage narrow?

a. To fix the cage easily in any corner of the house
b. To enable the bird to live in restricted areas
c. To make the bird feel belongingness towards the cage
d. To deny the bird any space for liberty
9. ‘Bars of rage’ means _______.

a. The bars are strong enough to cage the bird
b. The anger and agitation is depicted through the bars of cage
c. The anger and agitation experienced by the caged bird
d. The bars have control over the caged bird
10. Which line in the poem suggests that the caged bird does not give up hope?
a. He opens his throat to sing
b. He stalks down his narrow cage
c. He sings of the distant hills
d. He thinks of another breeze
11. Why according to you are the wings of caged bird clipped?
a. To fit the bird in the narrow cage
b. To limit the flight of the bird
c. To enable the bird to sing a song
d. To allow the bird to protest
12. ‘Fearful trill’ means _________.

a. Quavering and uncertain song
b. Song of freedom and certainty
c. Song sung with a steady tune
d. Song sung with hopefulness in it
13. What do fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn signify?

a. The opportunities that are available for a free bird
b. The beautiful nature of which the fat worm is a part
c. The beautiful nature of which a caged bird is a part
d. The opportunities that are available for a caged bird
14. What does ‘the grave of dreams’ signify?

a. Dreams are unachievable for the free bird
b. Dreams are achievable for the caged bird
c. Dreams are unachievable for the caged bird
d. Dreams are achievable for the free bird
15. Why does the poet repeat the lines, ‘His wings are clipped and his feet are tied’?
a. To compare the free bird with the caged bird
b. To emphasize the distress and confinement of the caged bird
c. To remind that the free bird can sing
d. To tell that the cage has bars of rage
16. The word ‘stalks’ means _______.

a. The caged bird can barely move
b. The free bird can leap
c. The free bird can claim the sky
d. The caged bird cannot claim the sky
17. Who makes a sighing sound in the poem?
a. The bird
b. The soft wind
c. The trees
d. The fat worms
18. Which place is like a ‘grave of dreams’ for the caged bird?
a. The orange sky
b. The dawn-bright lawn
c. The distant hill
d. The barred cage
19. The poet repeats stanza 3 at the end of the poem to _____.
a. To reiterate the plight and anguish of the caged bird
b. To explain how happy the free bird is
c. To make readers realise how free bird claims the sky
d. To state how the caged bird enjoys songs
20. Which of the following lines depicts the exact meaning of ‘His shadow shouts on
a nightmare scream’?
a. The caged bird screams dreadfully at the sight of his own shadow.
b. Any shadow makes the caged bird afraid.
c. The sight of free bird is like a nightmare.
d. None of the above
21. Identify the figure of speech in the given line. ‘and shadow shouts on a nightmare
scream.’
a. personification
b. oxymoron
c. simile
22. What is the free bird symbolic of ?
a. symbolic of white people and their domination
b. symbolic of brown people and their culture
c. symbolic of black people and their confinement
23. What is the caged bird symbolic of ?
a. symbolic of white people and their domination
b. symbolic of brown people and their culture

c. symbolic of black people and their confinement
24. ‘His wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.’ What
is the meaning of this line?
a. The caged bird is struggling to sing
b. The caged bird is stuck in its nest
c. The caged bird is enslaved
25. ‘the orange sun rays’

What is orange colour symbolic of?
a. negativity
b. positivity
c. does not symbolize anything
26. What song is the caged bird singing?
a. a song for freedom
b. a song to show its pain
c. a song to express its loneliness
27. What is cage in the poem ‘ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ symbolic of ?
a. it is a symbol of prosperity
b. it is a grave of dreams for the caged bird
c. it is a scaffold for the caged bird
28. This poem is autobiographical because –
a. because the poet wrote her autobiography titled ‘‘ I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings’
b. because there are features of autobiography in the poem
c. because the poet felt like a bird who is enslaved and cannot fly.
29. Which from these is an example of kinesthetic imagery?
a. floats
b. narrow cage
c. orange sun rays
30. The phrase “graves of dreams refers to

a. Unachievable dreams
b. Vivid dreams
c. unusual dreams
d. Unrealistic dreams

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1. Maya Angelou is a powerful feminist writer of _______ ethnicity.

3. What does the bird in the cage symbolize?

6. Which of the following actions can the caged bird perform?

7. The caged bird sings of __________.

8. Why must be the bird’s cage narrow?

9. ‘Bars of rage’ means _______.

12. ‘Fearful trill’ means _________.

13. What do fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn signify?

14. What does ‘the grave of dreams’ signify?

16. The word ‘stalks’ means _______.

22. What is the free bird symbolic of ?

a. symbolic of white people and their domination

b. symbolic of brown people and their culture

c. symbolic of black people and their confinement

23. What is the caged bird symbolic of ?

a. symbolic of white people and their domination

b. symbolic of brown people and their culture

a. The caged bird is struggling to sing

b. The caged bird is stuck in its nest

c. The caged bird is enslaved

25. ‘the orange sun rays’

c. does not symbolize anything

26. What song is the caged bird singing?

a. a song for freedom

b. a song to show its pain

c. a song to express its loneliness

b. it is a grave of dreams for the caged bird

c. it is a scaffold for the caged bird

28. This poem is autobiographical because –

c. orange sun rays

30. The phrase “graves of dreams refers to

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