Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Harlem Renaissance

the Renaissance

Romanticism

Vorticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Free verse

Formalist

Futurist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form

stanza

sonnet

romantic

ballad
4 The poem takes place in

Baltimore

Boston

Bakersfield

Paris
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

ten and tall

African American

eight and small

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

intelligence

white

a creature or human

a little bit
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?

the name of the other boy

the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the rain and snow
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of

alliteration

chiasmus

irony

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

enjambment

allegory

allusion

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

John Keats

W.E.B. Du Bois
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?

Simply a poet

an African American poet

a Romantic poet

a New York poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?

All of them

The first and second

The first and third

The second and fourth

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