From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1909

1931

1942

1927
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?

English sonnet

Haiku

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle
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

She

I
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Three quatrains

Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet

Two tercets
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?

In the volta

In the tercet

In the first two lines

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

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

Roots

Leaves

Swords

Darkness
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they are unnoticeable

That they are a void

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?

Farm work

A potentially better future

Thankless labor

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

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"Georgia Dusk"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused

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

colored darkly

bright

a soft cloth

the night sky
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABCABC

ABAB

It doesn't have one
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"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"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"?

Internal feeling

Initial impression

Overwhelming emotion

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

Copper Sun

Color

The Weary Blues

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

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

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away

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 expresses outrage

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky
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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