From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1931

1927

1942

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

The length of a shadow

A mythic tower

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

English sonnet

Haiku

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain School

The Beats
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
I

He

She

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Two tercets

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the tercet

In the first two lines

In the octave

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

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston
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?
Swords

Leaves

Darkness

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

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?
Harvest season

Farm work

A potentially better future

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

"Harvest Song"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Georgia Dusk"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Resigned and dejected

Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful

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

the night sky

colored darkly

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

ABCABC

It doesn't have one
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

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

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

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

Internal feeling

Initial impression

Facial expression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Copper Sun

Cane

Color

The Weary Blues
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free

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

The speaker's wish to move away
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 describes the night sky

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

The dark parts of the night sky

Seeds

White stars

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