From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1931

1909

1942

1927
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

Villanelle

Haiku

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Black Mountain School

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

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

She

I

He
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Five couplets and a monostich

Two tercets

Three quatrains

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

In the octave

In the tercet

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

Sylvia Plath

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot

Toni Morrison

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

Darkness

Swords

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Claudia Rankine

Langston Hughes

Jean Toomer

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 serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Thankless labor

Farm work

Harvest season

A potentially better future
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"Georgia Dusk"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"
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?
a soft cloth

the night sky

bright

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

It doesn't have one

ABAB

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

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter
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?
Bleeding hearts

Gardenias

Sunflowers

Snapdragons
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Initial impression

Overwhelming emotion

Internal feeling

Facial expression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
The Weary Blues

Color

Cane

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?
At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

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

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

Seeds

White stars

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