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?
Futurist

Blues

Formalist

Free verse
3 Incident is written in ___ form
stanza

sonnet

ballad

romantic
4 The poem takes place in
Baltimore

Paris

Boston

Bakersfield
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?
intelligence

a creature or human

white

a little bit
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the rain and snow

the name of the other boy

being called the n-word

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

alliteration

paradox

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

motif

allegory

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

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

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

a Romantic poet

an African American poet

Simply a poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The first and third

The second and fourth

All of them

The first and second

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