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?
Earnest and simple

Distant and removed

Dark and eerie

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

Myth

Native Guard

Parker's Mood
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?
A murder in the woods

A major holiday

A family's home being burned down

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross
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?
Austin, Texas

Gulfport, Mississippi

Montreal, Canada

Richmond, Virginia
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

Six lines with an ABBACC rhyme scheme

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

Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables
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?
Monument

Thrall

Domestic Work

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

They

She

We
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?
Beasts

Demons

Angels

Loose flames
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"By morning all the flames had dimmed."

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

"Nothing really happened."

"the charred grass still green."
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
A specially designed lightbulb

A candle

An oil lantern

A flashlight
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 it suggests the fear they felt in that moment

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?
Rivers

The moon

Flames

The trees
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
The morning after the cross burning

When the men are shown around the cross

When the speaker retells the story

When the speaker peers out the window
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"?
Shining brightly

Burnt and blackened

Grilled

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

Storytelling

Love

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

The story of Iphigenia

The story of Icarus

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

Historical poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastiche
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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