Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2000

2006

2001

2015
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Dark and eerie

Warm and direct

Distant and removed

Earnest and simple
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Myth

Incident

Parker's Mood

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

A ghost story

A sea shanty

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

A murder in the woods

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 Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Award

The Bollingen Prize

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

Haiku
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Austin, Texas

Richmond, Virginia

Montreal, Canada

Gulfport, Mississippi
9 What is the structure of a pantoum?
The second and fourth lines of a stanza are reused as the first and third lines of the next stanza

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

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 Birmingham, Alabama

In Little Rock, Arkansas

In the woods

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

Thrall

Monument

Native Guard
12 What pronoun does the speaker use to refer to themselves?
I

We

They

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

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

"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?
Demons

Beasts

Angels

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

"Nothing really happened."

"By morning all the flames had dimmed."

"the charred grass still green."
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
An oil lantern

A specially designed lightbulb

A flashlight

A candle
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because it rhymes with the next line

Because the men outside were afraid

Because the fire wasn't burning brightly

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

Flames

The moon

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

When the men are shown around the cross

The morning after the cross burning

When the speaker peers out the window
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"?
Shining brightly

Crunched

Grilled

Burnt and blackened
22 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Storytelling

Love

Fear

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

The story of Orpheus

The story of Iphigenia

The story of Icarus
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 witnessed something troubling

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

That the speaker is nosy

That the speaker's family is close

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