From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1931

1909

1927

1942
2 What is the poem about?

A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The events of a Stephen King novel

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

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet

Haiku

English sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolist Movement

The Black Mountain School
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

He

I

She

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Two tercets
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?

In the tercet

In the volta

In the octave

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

Sylvia Plath

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Langston Hughes

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

Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot

Claude McKay

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

Swords

Roots

Leaves

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 a void

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars

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

A potentially better future

Thankless labor

Farm work

Harvest season
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"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?

bright

the night sky

a soft cloth

colored darkly
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCABC

ABAB

It doesn't have one

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

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Gardenias

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts

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

Initial impression

Facial expression

Overwhelming emotion

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

Cane

Color

Copper Sun

The Weary Blues
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

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 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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