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1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

Vorticism

Romanticism

the Renaissance

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

Free verse

Formalist

Futurist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form

romantic

ballad

stanza

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in

Boston

Baltimore

Paris

Bakersfield
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

eight and small

African American

smiling

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

a creature or human

intelligence

a little bit

white
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

alliteration

paradox

chiasmus

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

motif

allusion

allegory

enjambment
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?

an African American poet

a Romantic poet

a New York poet

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

All of them

The second and fourth

The first and third

The first and second

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