Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Harlem Renaissance

Vorticism

Romanticism

the Renaissance
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Free verse

Futurist

Formalist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form

romantic

sonnet

stanza

ballad
4 The poem takes place in

Paris

Bakersfield

Boston

Baltimore
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

African American

smiling

ten and tall

eight and small
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?

a creature or human

intelligence

a little bit

white
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?

the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the rain and snow

the name of the other boy
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of

irony

alliteration

paradox

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

allegory

allusion

enjambment

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

John Keats

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?

a Romantic poet

Simply a poet

an African American poet

a New York poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?

The second and fourth

The first and second

All of them

The first and third

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