Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

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

Romanticism

Vorticism

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

Formalist

Blues

Free verse
3 Incident is written in ___ form
stanza

sonnet

romantic

ballad
4 The poem takes place in
Boston

Baltimore

Paris

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

ten and tall

African American

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

intelligence

a little bit

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the rain and snow

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

alliteration

chiasmus

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

motif

allusion

allegory
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

John Keats

Countee Cullen
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
a New York poet

Simply a poet

a Romantic 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 second

The first and third

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