Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

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

The Medea and Other Poems

Color

Copper Sun
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Subdued

Bitter

Cold

Triumphant
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Zora Neale Hurston

Maya Angelou

Natasha Trethewey

Morgan Parker
4 When was the poem published?
1931

1903

1919

1925
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A white man crossing the street

A crowd outside a store

Two men in an interracial relationship

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

Ballad meter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Twelve

Four

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

Victorian poetry

Love poetry

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

ABCABC

ABBCC

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Tercets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
Thunder

The moonlight

A crystal stair case

A bolt of lightning
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain Poets

The French Symbolists

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
John Keats

Lord Byron

W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Natasha Trethewey

Claude McKay

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
New York University

Columbia University

Queens College

Brooklyn College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The couple's romantic bliss

The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's anger at the outside world

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

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

Ambivalent

Positive

Negative
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the main characters cross the street

When the onlookers say hateful things

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

When the onlookers stare and whisper
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

a cut of cloth

soft

satin
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"The golden splendor of the day,"

"In unison to walk."

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Oblivious to look and word"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Night

Day

Rain

Lightning
24 When was Cullen born?
1901

1903

1905

1900
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Yellow

Magnificence

Brightness

Sun

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