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?
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?
Villanelle

English sonnet

Haiku

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?
We

I

She

He
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains

Two tercets
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?
Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Roots

Leaves

Swords

Darkness
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen
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 unnoticeable

That they are a void
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?
"Brass Spittoons"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
the night sky

colored darkly

bright

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA and then AABBCC

It doesn't have one

ABAB

ABCABC
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

Snapdragons

Gardenias
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?
The Weary Blues

Cane

Color

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

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage
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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