1. Which lines from the poem show that the caged bird has never free?

2. What does the caged bird's singing reveal about him?

3. Why does the caged bird sing?

4. Read these lines from the poem

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

What do these lines reveal about the caged bird?

5) According to the poem, the free bird can best be described as

6. What is the main conflict in this poem?

7. What is this poem mainly about?

8.What does the caged bird sing about?

9. What prevents the caged bird from flying?

10. An idea explored in both the selection and the poem is-

11. How are the slaves from the working fields are the same as the caged bird

12. Read these lines from the poem 

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn

and he names the sky his own

Which sentence from the choices given below best matches as idea present in these lines? 

13. Who feeds upon whom?

14. Read  stanza 3m0f the poem

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird sings of freedom

In the above lines, why does the caged bird sings "with a fearful trill"? 

15. The grave of dreams represents

16. The free bird demonstrates freedom and power when it

17. What is the best example of personification?

18. The caged bird represents

19. Which words provide a negative connotation?

20. Why does the caged bird sing?

21. What "nightmare" is the caged bird referring to?

22. How is caged bird an extended metaphor?

23. The first stanza is meant to show

24. In which line of the poem does Angelou show the anger one would feel at the loss of freedom?

25. Who has access to the "sighing forests"?

26. Who wrote The Caged Bird

27. What does "reaching far enough to the distant hill" signify?

28. Which bird is mentioned singing?

29. What are the "Orange sun rays" symbolic of-

30. Name the literary device used in-"sighing trees"

31. Name the literary device in - "Orange sun rays"

32. Which stanza of the poem is repeated?

33. What does "Bars of rage" represent?

34. Name the literary device used in - "Bars of rage"

35. What happens when the wings of the birds are clipped?

36. How many stanzas are there in the poem?

37. What does the caged bird long for?

38. With what purpose the caged bird sings?

39. Which physical activity does the caged bird does before singing?

40. Whom does Maya Angelou symbolize with a cage bird?

41. When did she publish this poem - 'I know why the caged bird sings'

42. What was Maya's profession apart from poet?

43. According to the poet whose future was bleak?

44. Angelou, with the metaphor of birds, represents the-

45. What does it mean in the extract - "dares to claim the sky" and for whom it is said for?

46. What does the below phrase signify?

        "his wings are clipped"

47. What was caged bird's only joy and achievement in life?

48. His shadow 'shouts on a nightmare scream'. What is the nightmare in the given sentence

49. During which movement, this poem uses a metaphor to compare cagedbirds to African Americans?

50. The caged bird sings about-