Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Romanticism

the Renaissance

the Harlem Renaissance

Vorticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Futurist

Blues

Free verse

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
stanza

sonnet

ballad

romantic
4 The poem takes place in
Bakersfield

Baltimore

Boston

Paris
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
eight and small

smiling

ten and tall

African American
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
a little bit

intelligence

a creature or human

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
paradox

chiasmus

alliteration

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

motif

allegory

allusion
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois

John Keats

Langston Hughes
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
a New York poet

an African American poet

Simply a poet

a Romantic poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The second and fourth

The first and second

The first and third

All of them

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