From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1942

1927

1909

1931
2 What is the poem about?
The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower

The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel
3 What is the form of the poem?
Haiku

Petrarchan sonnet

English sonnet

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The French Symbolist Movement

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

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

She

I

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

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the volta

In the octave

In the first two lines

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot

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

Leaves

Swords

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

Countee Cullen
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are a void

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they are unnoticeable

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

Thankless labor

A potentially better future

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

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"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?
colored darkly

the night sky

a soft cloth

bright
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA and then AABBCC

ABCABC

It doesn't have one

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic octameter

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

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

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

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

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

Initial impression

Internal feeling

Facial expression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Copper Sun

The Weary Blues

Color

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
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 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

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?
Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

Blooming flowers

White stars

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