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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an Uncommon card
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 187 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a ____ autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.
Answer
1960s. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. From the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Igor Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky 340,000 · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 170,000 · Wanda Jackson 100,000 · Ismail Kadare 74,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature helped her to overcome racism and trauma.
- The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16.
- In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Janet Halverson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
