Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
The Medea and Other Poems

Copper Sun

One Way to Heaven

Color
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Cold

Subdued

Bitter

Triumphant
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker

Zora Neale Hurston

Natasha Trethewey
4 When was the poem published?
1903

1931

1919

1925
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
People looking out of a window

Two men in an interracial relationship

A crowd outside a store

A white man crossing the street
6 What is the poem's meter
Free verse

Ballad meter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Three

Twelve

Four
8 What is the poem's genre?
Love poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastoral ode

Victorian poetry
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCABC

ABBA

ABBCC

ABAB
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Tercets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
The moonlight

Thunder

A bolt of lightning

A crystal stair case
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Beats

The French Symbolists

The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
W.B. Yeats

John Keats

Emily Dickinson

Lord Byron
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Natasha Trethewey

Langston Hughes

Claude McKay

James Weldon Johnson
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Brooklyn College

Columbia University

Queens College

New York University
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
A flower bed

The couple's romantic bliss

The couple's anger at the outside world

The disapproval of outside observers
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"Indignant that these two should dare"
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Negative

Ambivalent

Positive

Uncaring
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the main characters cross the street
20 How are the two men described?
Holding hands

Being far apart

Walking arm in arm

Hugging
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
black

soft

satin

a cut of cloth
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"Oblivious to look and word"

"In unison to walk."
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Lightning

Day

Rain

Night
24 When was Cullen born?
1903

1901

1900

1905
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Brightness

Yellow

Sun

Magnificence

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