Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2000

2001

2015

2006
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Distant and removed

Warm and direct

Earnest and simple

Dark and eerie
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Incident

Parker's Mood

Myth

Native Guard
4 What kind of story does the mood of the poem imitate?
A sea shanty

A ghost story

A heroic ballad

A love song
5 What does the poem depict?
A murder in the woods

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross

A family's home being burned down

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

The Bollingen Prize

The Pulitzer Prize

A Golden Globe
7 What form does the poem utilize?
Pantoum

Haiku

Sonnet

Villanelle
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Montreal, Canada

Richmond, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

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

Six lines with an ABBACC rhyme scheme

The second and fourth lines of a stanza are reused as the first and third lines of the next stanza
10 Where is the poem set?
In Little Rock, Arkansas

In the woods

In Birmingham, Alabama

In a small town at night, likely in the South
11 What is the title of the collection the poem was originally included in?
Monument

Thrall

Native Guard

Domestic Work
12 What pronoun does the speaker use to refer to themselves?
They

She

We

I
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps."

"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."
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Loose flames

Angels

Demons

Beasts
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 candle

A specially designed lightbulb

A flashlight

An oil lantern
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because the men outside were afraid

Because the fire wasn't burning brightly

Because it rhymes with the next line

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

Flames

Rivers

The trees
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker retells the story

When the speaker peers out the window

The morning after the cross burning

When the men are shown around the cross
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
The other townspeople

The governor

A disembodied force

The members of the Klan
21 What is the meaning of the word "charred"?
Grilled

Burnt and blackened

Shining brightly

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

Fear

Love

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

The story of Icarus

The story of Orpheus

The story of Iphigenia
24 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastiche

Ekphrasis

Victorian poetry

Historical poetry
25 What is foreshadowed in the poem's opening lines?
That the speaker's family is close

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

That the speaker witnessed something troubling

That the speaker is nosy

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