Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
One Way to Heaven

Color

Copper Sun

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

Subdued

Cold

Triumphant
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Zora Neale Hurston

Natasha Trethewey

Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker
4 When was the poem published?
1925

1919

1903

1931
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A white man crossing the street

People looking out of a window

Two men in an interracial relationship

A crowd outside a store
6 What is the poem's meter
Ballad meter

Dactylic octameter

Free verse

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

Three

Four

Twelve
8 What is the poem's genre?
Pastoral ode

Love poetry

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBCC

ABBA

ABAB

ABCABC
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains

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

A bolt of lightning

A crystal stair case

Thunder
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The French Symbolists

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain Poets

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

W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson

John Keats
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Langston Hughes

Claude McKay

Natasha Trethewey

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?
The couple's anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss

The disapproval of outside observers

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

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

Ambivalent

Uncaring

Negative
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the main characters cross the street

When the onlookers say hateful things

When the onlookers stare and whisper
20 How are the two men described?
Holding hands

Hugging

Being far apart

Walking arm in arm
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
black

a cut of cloth

soft

satin
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"Oblivious to look and word"

"In unison to walk."

"And here the fair folk talk,"

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

Lightning

Day

Night
24 When was Cullen born?
1901

1905

1900

1903
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Brightness

Yellow

Magnificence

Sun

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