From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1942

1909

1927

1931
2 What is the poem about?
The events of a Stephen King novel

A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow
3 What is the form of the poem?
English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle

Haiku
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

She

He

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

Five couplets and a monostich

Two tercets

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

In the first two lines

In the volta

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

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot

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

Leaves

Roots

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

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 serve no function

That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
A potentially better future

Harvest season

Thankless labor

Farm work
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

Angry but hopeful

Passionate but unfocused

Anxious and uncertain
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
a soft cloth

bright

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 octameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

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

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"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

Sunflowers

Gardenias

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

Initial impression

Facial expression

Internal feeling
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 to be free

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
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

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

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

Blooming flowers

Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

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