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

The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower

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

Haiku

Villanelle

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Beats

The Black Mountain School

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolist Movement
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

She

He

I

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Two tercets

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?

In the octave

In the tercet

In the volta

In the first two lines
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Toni Morrison

T.S. Eliot

Claude McKay

Gertrude Stein
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Swords

Roots

Leaves

Darkness
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer
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?

A potentially better future

Harvest season

Farm work

Thankless labor
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"Georgia Dusk"
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?

the night sky

bright

colored darkly

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABCABC

It doesn't have one

ABBA and then AABBCC
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Dactylic octameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

Gardenias

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

Facial expression

Overwhelming emotion

Internal feeling

Initial impression
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 desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

The speaker's frustration with their job

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 describes the night sky

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

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?

Blooming flowers

Seeds

White stars

The dark parts of the night sky

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