Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Renaissance

Romanticism

Vorticism

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

Blues

Free verse

Futurist

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form

stanza

romantic

ballad

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in

Boston

Baltimore

Paris

Bakersfield
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

African American

ten and tall

eight and small

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

white

a little bit

a creature or human

intelligence
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?

the name of the other boy

being called the n-word

the rain and snow

the color of the trees
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of

irony

chiasmus

alliteration

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

enjambment

allegory

allusion

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

Countee Cullen

John Keats
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?

Simply a poet

a Romantic poet

a New York poet

an African American 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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