Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
the Harlem Renaissance

Romanticism

the Renaissance

Vorticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Free verse

Formalist

Futurist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form
sonnet

romantic

stanza

ballad
4 The poem takes place in
Baltimore

Paris

Boston

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

African American

smiling

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

a creature or human

intelligence

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

the name of the other boy

the rain and snow

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
allusion

motif

allegory

enjambment
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 Romantic poet

Simply a poet

an African American poet

a New York poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The second and fourth

The first and third

All of them

The first and second

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