Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

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

the Renaissance

Vorticism

Romanticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Formalist

Free verse

Futurist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form
ballad

sonnet

stanza

romantic
4 The poem takes place in
Paris

Bakersfield

Boston

Baltimore
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

African American

eight and small

ten and tall
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 rain and snow

being called the n-word

the name of the other boy

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

paradox

alliteration

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

motif

allusion

enjambment
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
W.E.B. Du Bois

Countee Cullen

John Keats

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

Simply a poet

a Romantic poet

an African American 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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