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 exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow

A mythic tower
3 What is the form of the poem?
Petrarchan sonnet

Haiku

English sonnet

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

The Black Mountain School

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

We

She

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

Two tercets

Three quatrains

Five couplets and a monostich
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the volta

In the tercet

In the octave

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?
Claude McKay

Toni Morrison

Gertrude Stein

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

Swords

Leaves

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen
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 are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Thankless labor

Farm work

A potentially better future

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

"From the Dark Tower"

"Harvest Song"

"Georgia Dusk"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain

Passionate but unfocused
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?
ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC

It doesn't have one

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

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

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

Gardenias

Snapdragons

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

Initial impression

Internal feeling

Overwhelming emotion
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Cane

Copper Sun

Color

The Weary Blues
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 desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's frustration with their job
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
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

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

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

Seeds

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