From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1927

1931

1909

1942
2 What is the poem about?

The events of a Stephen King novel

A mythic tower

The length of a shadow

The exploitation of Black labor
3 What is the form of the poem?

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet

English sonnet

Haiku
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

The Black Mountain School
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

We

I

He

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet

Two tercets
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?

In the tercet

In the first two lines

In the volta

In the octave
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Darkness

Swords

Roots

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they serve no function

That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable

That they are as beautiful as the stars
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?

Farm work

A potentially better future

Thankless labor

Harvest season
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"Georgia Dusk"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful

Passionate but unfocused

Resigned and dejected
16 What does the word "sable" mean?

a soft cloth

bright

colored darkly

the night sky
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

It doesn't have one

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABCABC

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts

Gardenias

Sunflowers
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Initial impression

Internal feeling
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

Color

Cane

The Weary Blues

Copper Sun
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's frustration with their job

The speaker's wish to move away
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?

Blooming flowers

White stars

Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

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