From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1942

1931

1927

1909
2 What is the poem about?
A mythic tower

The length of a shadow

The exploitation of Black labor

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

Haiku

Villanelle

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

The Beats

The Black Mountain School

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

We

She

He
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet

Two tercets

Three quatrains
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the first two lines

In the tercet

In the octave

In the volta
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sylvia Plath

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

Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot

Toni Morrison
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Leaves

Swords

Roots

Darkness
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are a void

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function

That they are unnoticeable
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Farm work

Thankless labor

Harvest season

A potentially better future
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"

"Brass Spittoons"

"From the Dark Tower"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Passionate but unfocused

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain

Resigned and dejected
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?
ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

ABCABC

It doesn't have one
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

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"

"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

Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

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

Initial impression

Internal feeling

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

The Weary Blues

Cane

Color
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 beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

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
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
The dark parts of the night sky

Blooming flowers

White stars

Seeds

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