From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1931

1909

1942

1927
2 What is the poem about?

The length of a shadow

A mythic tower

The events of a Stephen King novel

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

Haiku

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolist Movement

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

He

We

I

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Two tercets

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

In the volta

In the first two lines

In the tercet

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath

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

Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

T.S. Eliot

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

Darkness

Leaves

Swords

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Countee Cullen
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they serve no function

That they are unnoticeable

That they are a void

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"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Brass Spittoons"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused

Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful
16 What does the word "sable" mean?

bright

a soft cloth

colored darkly

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

ABCABC

ABAB

It doesn't have one

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?

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"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?

Sunflowers

Gardenias

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts
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?

The Weary Blues

Color

Copper Sun

Cane
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 frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away
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

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

Seeds

Blooming flowers

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