From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

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1 When was the poem published?

1942

1931

1927

1909
2 What is the poem about?

The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower

The events of a Stephen King novel

The length of a shadow
3 What is the form of the poem?

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle

English sonnet

Haiku
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Beats

The Black Mountain School

The Harlem Renaissance

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

We

She

He

I
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

An octave and a sestet

Three quatrains

Two tercets

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

In the octave

In the first two lines

In the volta

In the tercet
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Swords

Leaves

Darkness

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 a void

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function

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

A potentially better future

Harvest season

Thankless labor

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

"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"

"Brass Spittoons"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Passionate but unfocused

Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

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

a soft cloth

colored darkly

the night sky

bright
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

ABCABC

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

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Sunflowers

Gardenias

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?

Initial impression

Facial expression

Internal feeling

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

The Weary Blues

Color

Copper Sun

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

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

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

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

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

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

Seeds

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