Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

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1 What collection did this poem appear in?

The Medea and Other Poems

Color

Copper Sun

One Way to Heaven
2 What is the tone of the poem?

Triumphant

Subdued

Bitter

Cold
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?

Morgan Parker

Zora Neale Hurston

Maya Angelou

Natasha Trethewey
4 When was the poem published?

1931

1919

1903

1925
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

Free verse

Iambic pentameter

Ballad meter

Dactylic octameter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Twelve

Two

Three
8 What is the poem's genre?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral ode

Ekphrasis

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABBCC

ABCABC
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

A bolt of lightning

The moonlight

Thunder
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?

The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

The French Symbolists
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?

W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson

Lord Byron

John Keats
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?

The couple's anger at the outside world

The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's romantic bliss

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"And here the fair folk talk,"

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

Ambivalent

Negative

Uncaring

Positive
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the main characters cross the street

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others
20 How are the two men described?

Being far apart

Walking arm in arm

Hugging

Holding hands
21 What does the word "sable" mean?

black

satin

a cut of cloth

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

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Oblivious to look and word"

"In unison to walk."

"The golden splendor of the day,"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?

Rain

Night

Lightning

Day
24 When was Cullen born?

1905

1903

1901

1900
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?

Magnificence

Yellow

Sun

Brightness

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