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?
Formalist

Free verse

Blues

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
ballad

stanza

romantic

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in
Boston

Bakersfield

Baltimore

Paris
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

ten and tall

eight and small

African American
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
a creature or human

a little bit

white

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

allusion

allegory

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

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

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

a New York poet

a Romantic poet

an African American poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The first and second

The second and fourth

All of them

The first and third

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