From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1909

1927

1942

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

The length of a shadow

A mythic tower

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

Haiku

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle
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?
She

He

We

I
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Two tercets

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the first two lines

In the volta

In the octave

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?
Claude McKay

Gertrude Stein

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"?
Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Claudia Rankine
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 are a void

That they serve no function
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Farm work

A potentially better future

Thankless labor

Harvest season
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"

"Brass Spittoons"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Passionate but unfocused

Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
the night sky

a soft cloth

colored darkly

bright
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
It doesn't have one

ABCABC

ABAB

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

Dactylic octameter

Iambic trimeter

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

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Gardenias

Sunflowers

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Facial expression

Initial impression

Overwhelming emotion

Internal feeling
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Cane

Copper Sun

The Weary Blues

Color
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's wish to move away

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 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 describes the night sky

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
Seeds

Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

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