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?
A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow

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

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

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

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
She

He

We

I
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Two tercets

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

In the tercet

In the first two lines

In the volta
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Sylvia Plath

Zora Neale Hurston

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Langston Hughes
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Gertrude Stein

Claude McKay

Toni Morrison

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

Roots

Swords

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they are a void

That they serve no function

That they are unnoticeable
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
A potentially better future

Harvest season

Farm work

Thankless labor
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"Brass Spittoons"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Harvest Song"

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

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused

Angry but hopeful
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
a soft cloth

colored darkly

bright

the night sky
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 pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

Sunflowers

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

Facial expression

Initial impression

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

Copper Sun

Color

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's desire to be free

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
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
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 describes the night sky

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
Seeds

White stars

Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

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