From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1927

1909

1931

1942
2 What is the poem about?
A mythic tower

The length of a shadow

The exploitation of Black labor

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

Villanelle

Haiku

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

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

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

She

We

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

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet

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

In the first two lines

In the octave

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?
Claude McKay

Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

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

Roots

Darkness

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Langston Hughes

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

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

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function

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

Harvest season

A potentially better future

Farm work
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Anxious and uncertain

Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
colored darkly

a soft cloth

bright

the night sky
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?
"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Snapdragons

Gardenias

Bleeding hearts

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?
Color

The Weary Blues

Cane

Copper Sun
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 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

Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

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