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

Formalist

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
romantic

sonnet

stanza

ballad
4 The poem takes place in
Paris

Boston

Baltimore

Bakersfield
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
eight and small

African American

ten and tall

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

a creature or human

intelligence

white
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the name of the other boy

the rain and snow

being called the n-word

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

chiasmus

alliteration

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

motif

allegory

allusion
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois

John Keats

Langston Hughes
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
a Romantic poet

a New York poet

an African American poet

Simply a poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The first and third

All of them

The first and second

The second and fourth

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