8 de octubre de 2010
The "Mother" Quiz
The "Mother" Quiz
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___ is the mother of good luck.
a. Diligence
b. Experience
c. Intelligence
d. Arrogance
Answer
a
___ is the mother of wisdom.
a. Diligence
b. Experience
c. Intelligence
d. Necessity
Answer
b
___ is the mother of invention.
a. Diligence
b. Experience
c. Intelligence
d. Necessity
Answer
d
He that would the ___ win, must with the mother first begin.
a. battle
b. argument
c. lottery
d. daughter
Answer
d
"Like mother, like daughter" means ___.
a. If you admire the mother you will also admire the daughter.
b. Daughters tend to do the same things as their mothers.
Answer
b
"Tied to one's mother's apron strings" means ___.
a. A person likes cooking.
b. A person has a fetish for his or her mother's clothing.
c. A person is dependent on his or her mother.
d. A person has very strict ideas about what is proper behavior.
Answer
c
"Every mother's son (of someone)" means ___.
a. Absolutely everyone with no exception
b. Anyone who is underage
c. All who are immature
d. Anyone who is living at home
Answer
a
"Old enough to be someone's mother" means ___.
a. A person is as old as someone's parents (too old for a relationship).
b. A person is old enough to have children.
c. A person is well matched emotionally with another person.
d. A person ought to act more mature.
Answer
a
Children are the ___ that hold a mother to life. (Sophocles)
a. stitches
b. anchors
c. pillars
d. glue
Answer
b
Every beetle is a gazelle in the ___ of its mother. (Moorish Proverb)
a. mind
b. view
c. eyes
d. heart
Answer
c
A ___ son is the heaviness of its mother. (Bible, Proverbs)
a. foolish
b. friendly
c. frank
d. fiendish
Answer
a
The ideal mother, like the ideal ___ is fiction.(Milton B. Sapirstein, Paradoxes of Everyday Life, 1955)
a. house
b. job
c. marriage
d. vacation
Answer
c
A mother is glad to get the loveliest child ___. (Emerson)
a. dressed
b. ready
c. home
d. asleep
Answer
d
No woman can call herself ___ unless she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be amother. (Margaret Sanger, Parade, Dec.1, 1963)
a. happy
b. open
c. free
d. modern
Answer
c
What mother sings to the cradle goes all the way ___ to the coffin. (Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbsfrom Plymouth Pulpit, 1887)
a. down
b. after
c. on
d. in
Answer
a
Who takes the child by the ___ takes the mother by the heart. (Danish Proverb)
a. storm
b. hand
c. shirttails
d. arm
Answer
b
Men are what ___ mothers made them. (Emerson)
a. some
b. other
c. their
d. many
Answer
c
Only mothers can think of the ___ because they give birth to it in their children. (Maxim Gorky)
a. future
b. past
c. present
d. possible
Answer
a
Motherly love begins with oneness and ___ to separateness. (Erich Fromm)
a. ends
b. leads
c. results
d. depends
Answer
b
A motherless son is a fish ___low water. (Burmese Proverb)
a. out
b. over
c. in
d. on
Answer
c
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