Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Romanticism

Vorticism

the Renaissance

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

Futurist

Formalist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form
stanza

romantic

ballad

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in
Bakersfield

Baltimore

Boston

Paris
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?
intelligence

white

a little bit

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the name of the other boy

the color of the trees

the rain and snow

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

irony

alliteration

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

Langston Hughes

John Keats

W.E.B. Du Bois
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
a Romantic poet

a New York poet

Simply a poet

an African American poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
All of them

The first and third

The first and second

The second and fourth

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