From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1909

1942

1931

1927
2 What is the poem about?
The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow

A mythic tower

The events of a Stephen King novel
3 What is the form of the poem?
Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle

English sonnet

Haiku
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Beats

The Black Mountain School

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
She

I

He

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Three quatrains

Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet

Two tercets
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the first two lines

In the octave

In the tercet

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

Sylvia Plath

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Claude McKay

Toni Morrison

Gertrude Stein

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

Darkness

Leaves

Roots
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 unnoticeable

That they are a void

That they serve no function

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

A potentially better future

Farm work

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

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Georgia Dusk"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

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

a soft cloth

the night sky

colored darkly
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
It doesn't have one

ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter
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

Sunflowers

Bleeding hearts

Gardenias
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Initial impression

Internal feeling

Facial expression

Overwhelming emotion
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 wish to move away

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

The speaker's frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

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

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

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

White stars

The dark parts of the night sky

Seeds

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