Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2006

2000

2001

2015
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Warm and direct

Dark and eerie

Earnest and simple

Distant and removed
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Myth

Parker's Mood

Native Guard

Incident
4 What kind of story does the mood of the poem imitate?
A love song

A heroic ballad

A ghost story

A sea shanty
5 What does the poem depict?
Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross

A murder in the woods

A major holiday

A family's home being burned down
6 What prize did Trethewey receive for the collection that "Incident" was included in?
The National Book Award

The Pulitzer Prize

A Golden Globe

The Bollingen Prize
7 What form does the poem utilize?
Villanelle

Pantoum

Haiku

Sonnet
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Montreal, Canada

Gulfport, Mississippi

Richmond, Virginia

Austin, Texas
9 What is the structure of a pantoum?
Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables

Ten lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, followed by a rhyming couplet

The second and fourth lines of a stanza are reused as the first and third lines of the next stanza

Six lines with an ABBACC rhyme scheme
10 Where is the poem set?
In a small town at night, likely in the South

In Little Rock, Arkansas

In Birmingham, Alabama

In the woods
11 What is the title of the collection the poem was originally included in?
Domestic Work

Thrall

Native Guard

Monument
12 What pronoun does the speaker use to refer to themselves?
We

They

I

She
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,"

"We tell the story every year—"

"It seemed the angels had gathered, white men in their gowns."

"we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps."
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Beasts

Loose flames

Angels

Demons
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"Nothing really happened."

"the charred grass still green."

"The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;"

"By morning all the flames had dimmed."
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
A flashlight

An oil lantern

A specially designed lightbulb

A candle
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because the fire wasn't burning brightly

Because it rhymes with the next line

Because the men outside were afraid

Because it suggests the fear they felt in that moment
18 Which of the following is an important symbol in the poem?
The moon

Rivers

Flames

The trees
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker peers out the window

When the speaker retells the story

When the men are shown around the cross

The morning after the cross burning
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
The governor

A disembodied force

The members of the Klan

The other townspeople
21 What is the meaning of the word "charred"?
Crunched

Burnt and blackened

Grilled

Shining brightly
22 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Love

Repression

Storytelling

Fear
23 What is depicted in the poem "Myth"?
The story of Orpheus

The story of Iphigenia

The story of Icarus

The story of Hades
24 What is the genre of the poem?
Historical poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastiche

Victorian poetry
25 What is foreshadowed in the poem's opening lines?
That the speaker is bad at telling stories

That the speaker is nosy

That the speaker's family is close

That the speaker witnessed something troubling

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