From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1942

1927

1931

1909
2 What is the poem about?
The events of a Stephen King novel

A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow
3 What is the form of the poem?
Villanelle

Haiku

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Black Mountain School

The Beats

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance
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

Two tercets

An octave and a sestet
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the volta

In the tercet

In the first two lines

In the octave
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
T.S. Eliot

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

Gertrude Stein
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Darkness

Roots

Swords

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they are unnoticeable

That they serve no function

That they are a void
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
A potentially better future

Farm work

Thankless labor

Harvest season
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

Anxious and uncertain

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
the night sky

bright

colored darkly

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
It doesn't have one

ABAB

ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Snapdragons

Gardenias

Sunflowers

Bleeding hearts
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Internal feeling

Overwhelming emotion

Initial impression

Facial expression
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 frustration with their job

The speaker's wish to move away

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

The speaker's desire to be free
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
Seeds

White stars

The dark parts of the night sky

Blooming flowers

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