Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Renaissance

Vorticism

Romanticism

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

Futurist

Blues

Free verse

Formalist
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

African American

ten and tall

smiling

eight and small
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?

intelligence

white

a creature or human

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

the color of the trees

the rain and snow

the name of the other boy

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

alliteration

paradox

irony

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

allusion

allegory

enjambment

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

W.E.B. Du Bois

John Keats

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen
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 second and fourth

The first and second

All of them

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