Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Vorticism

the Renaissance

Romanticism

the Harlem Renaissance
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Blues

Free verse

Futurist

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
romantic

stanza

sonnet

ballad
4 The poem takes place in
Bakersfield

Boston

Baltimore

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

African American

ten and tall

smiling
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
white

intelligence

a little bit

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the rain and snow

the name of the other boy

the color of the trees

being called the n-word
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of
paradox

alliteration

irony

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

motif

allusion

enjambment
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Langston Hughes

John Keats

Countee Cullen

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

a Romantic poet

a New York poet

an African American poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The second and fourth

The first and third

The first and second

All of them

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