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?

Free verse

Formalist

Futurist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form

romantic

sonnet

stanza

ballad
4 The poem takes place in

Baltimore

Bakersfield

Paris

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

ten and tall

eight and small

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?

being called the n-word

the name of the other boy

the color of the trees

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

irony

alliteration

paradox

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

enjambment

allusion

allegory

motif
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?

an African American poet

a Romantic poet

a New York poet

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

The first and second

All of them

The second and fourth

The first and third

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