Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Vorticism

the Harlem Renaissance

Romanticism

the Renaissance
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Formalist

Blues

Free verse

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
sonnet

stanza

romantic

ballad
4 The poem takes place in
Baltimore

Paris

Bakersfield

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

ten and tall

African American

eight and small
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
a creature or human

white

a little bit

intelligence
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the name of the other boy

the rain and snow

being called the n-word

the color of the trees
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of
chiasmus

paradox

irony

alliteration
9 "He poked out / His tongue" is an example of
allegory

allusion

motif

enjambment
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
John Keats

Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
an African American poet

a New York poet

a Romantic poet

Simply a poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
All of them

The first and third

The second and fourth

The first and second

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