From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1942

1927

1931

1909
2 What is the poem about?

The events of a Stephen King novel

A mythic tower

The length of a shadow

The exploitation of Black labor
3 What is the form of the poem?

Haiku

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet

English sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Beats

The French Symbolist Movement

The Black Mountain School

The Harlem Renaissance
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

He

We

I

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Three quatrains

Two tercets

Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?

In the octave

In the volta

In the tercet

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Leaves

Roots

Darkness

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

Langston Hughes
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they are unnoticeable

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars

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

Farm work

Harvest season

Thankless labor

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?

Passionate but unfocused

Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain
16 What does the word "sable" mean?

bright

a soft cloth

the night sky

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

ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

It doesn't have one
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic octameter
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?

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

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

Internal feeling

Facial expression

Overwhelming emotion

Initial impression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

Color

Cane

The Weary Blues

Copper Sun
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free

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 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?

Blooming flowers

Seeds

White stars

The dark parts of the night sky

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