Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
the Harlem Renaissance

Romanticism

Vorticism

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

Formalist

Futurist

Free verse
3 Incident is written in ___ form
stanza

romantic

sonnet

ballad
4 The poem takes place in
Boston

Paris

Bakersfield

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

smiling

African American

ten and tall
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
white

intelligence

a creature or human

a little bit
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
being called the n-word

the name of the other boy

the rain and snow

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

allegory

motif

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

a Romantic poet

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

The second and fourth

The first and second

The first and third

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