Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2000

2015

2001

2006
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Earnest and simple

Dark and eerie

Distant and removed

Warm and direct
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Native Guard

Incident

Parker's Mood

Myth
4 What kind of story does the mood of the poem imitate?
A ghost story

A sea shanty

A heroic ballad

A love song
5 What does the poem depict?
A family's home being burned down

A murder in the woods

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross

A major holiday
6 What prize did Trethewey receive for the collection that "Incident" was included in?
The National Book Award

A Golden Globe

The Pulitzer Prize

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

Haiku

Villanelle

Pantoum
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Richmond, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

Montreal, Canada

Austin, Texas
9 What is the structure of a pantoum?
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

Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables

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

In Birmingham, Alabama

In Little Rock, Arkansas

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

Native Guard

Monument

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

I

She

They
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"We tell the story every year—"

"we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps."

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

"at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,"
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Angels

Beasts

Loose flames

Demons
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;"

"By morning all the flames had dimmed."

"the charred grass still green."

"Nothing really happened."
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
A specially designed lightbulb

A flashlight

A candle

An oil lantern
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because it suggests the fear they felt in that moment

Because it rhymes with the next line

Because the men outside were afraid

Because the fire wasn't burning brightly
18 Which of the following is an important symbol in the poem?
The trees

Rivers

Flames

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

The morning after the cross burning

When the speaker retells the story

When the men are shown around the cross
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
The members of the Klan

A disembodied force

The governor

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

Shining brightly

Burnt and blackened

Crunched
22 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Repression

Love

Storytelling

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

The story of Icarus

The story of Iphigenia

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

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastiche
25 What is foreshadowed in the poem's opening lines?
That the speaker is nosy

That the speaker witnessed something troubling

That the speaker's family is close

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

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