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?
A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow

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

English sonnet

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

The French Symbolist Movement

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

He

We

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

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

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

In the tercet

In the volta

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Langston Hughes

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

T.S. Eliot

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Darkness

Swords

Leaves

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Claudia Rankine

Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes
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

A potentially better future

Thankless labor

Farm work
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

Passionate but unfocused

Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected
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?
ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC

It doesn't have one

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Bleeding hearts

Gardenias

Snapdragons

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

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Initial impression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Cane

Color

Copper Sun

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

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

The speaker's wish to move away

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

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
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
Seeds

White stars

Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

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