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Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?

Color

The Medea and Other Poems

One Way to Heaven

Copper Sun
2 What is the tone of the poem?

Triumphant

Cold

Bitter

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?

Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker

Zora Neale Hurston

Natasha Trethewey
4 When was the poem published?

1925

1903

1919

1931
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?

Two men in an interracial relationship

A white man crossing the street

A crowd outside a store

People looking out of a window
6 What is the poem's meter

Dactylic octameter

Free verse

Ballad meter

Iambic pentameter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Twelve

Three

Two

Four
8 What is the poem's genre?

Pastoral ode

Love poetry

Ekphrasis

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

ABCABC

ABAB

ABBCC

ABBA
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?

A crystal stair case

Thunder

A bolt of lightning

The moonlight
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?

The French Symbolists

The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?

Lord Byron

John Keats

Emily Dickinson

W.B. Yeats
14 Who wrote "Cross"?

Claude McKay

Natasha Trethewey

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson
15 Where did Cullen attend college?

New York University

Brooklyn College

Columbia University

Queens College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?

A flower bed

The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's romantic bliss

The couple's anger at the outside world
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?

Ambivalent

Positive

Uncaring

Negative
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the onlookers say hateful things

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

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

Being far apart

Holding hands

Walking arm in arm

Hugging
21 What does the word "sable" mean?

satin

a cut of cloth

black

soft
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?

"In unison to walk."

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"Oblivious to look and word"

"And here the fair folk talk,"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?

Night

Lightning

Rain

Day
24 When was Cullen born?

1903

1905

1901

1900
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?

Magnificence

Yellow

Sun

Brightness

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