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1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Renaissance

Romanticism

the Harlem Renaissance

Vorticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Free verse

Formalist

Blues

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form

stanza

romantic

sonnet

ballad
4 The poem takes place in

Paris

Boston

Baltimore

Bakersfield
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

smiling

African American

eight and small

ten and tall
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?

a creature or human

white

intelligence

a little bit
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

irony

chiasmus

alliteration

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

allusion

enjambment

allegory

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

John Keats

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

Countee Cullen
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 third

All of them

The first and second

The second and fourth

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