Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Vorticism

the Renaissance

Romanticism

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

Futurist

Free verse

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
sonnet

stanza

ballad

romantic
4 The poem takes place in
Baltimore

Boston

Paris

Bakersfield
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
ten and tall

eight and small

African American

smiling
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
white

a creature or human

a little bit

intelligence
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the rain and snow

the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the name of the other boy
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of
alliteration

irony

paradox

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

motif

allegory

enjambment
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 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 second

The first and third

All of them

The second and fourth

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