Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Harlem Renaissance

Vorticism

the Renaissance

Romanticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Blues

Free verse

Formalist

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form

romantic

sonnet

stanza

ballad
4 The poem takes place in

Paris

Baltimore

Bakersfield

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

smiling

ten and tall

eight and small

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

a little bit

white

intelligence

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

the name of the other boy

the rain and snow

the color of the trees

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

paradox

chiasmus

irony

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

enjambment

motif

allegory

allusion
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?

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 first and third

The first and second

All of them

The second and fourth

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