Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
Color

One Way to Heaven

Copper Sun

The Medea and Other Poems
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Triumphant

Cold

Bitter

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Morgan Parker

Natasha Trethewey

Maya Angelou

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1903

1931

1925

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A crowd outside a store

People looking out of a window

A white man crossing the street

Two men in an interracial relationship
6 What is the poem's meter
Dactylic octameter

Free verse

Ballad meter

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

Two

Four

Three
8 What is the poem's genre?
Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastoral ode

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

ABCABC

ABBA

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

Octaves

Tercets

Couplets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
A bolt of lightning

The moonlight

A crystal stair case

Thunder
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

Lord Byron

Emily Dickinson

John Keats
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
James Weldon Johnson

Langston Hughes

Claude McKay

Natasha Trethewey
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Brooklyn College

Queens College

New York University

Columbia University
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?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Positive

Negative

Uncaring

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

When the onlookers stare and whisper

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?
Holding hands

Walking arm in arm

Being far apart

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

satin

soft

a cut of cloth
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"In unison to walk."

"Oblivious to look and word"

"The golden splendor of the day,"

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

Night

Day

Lightning
24 When was Cullen born?
1900

1903

1905

1901
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Sun

Magnificence

Yellow

Brightness

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