Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?

Color

The Medea and Other Poems

Copper Sun

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

Bitter

Subdued

Triumphant

Cold
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?

Natasha Trethewey

Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?

1931

1925

1903

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?

A crowd outside a store

A white man crossing the street

Two men in an interracial relationship

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

Ballad meter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Free verse
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Three

Twelve

Two
8 What is the poem's genre?

Ekphrasis

Victorian poetry

Pastoral ode

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

ABCABC

ABBA

ABBCC

ABAB
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Octaves

Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?

The moonlight

A bolt of lightning

Thunder

A crystal stair case
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?

The Beats

The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Emily Dickinson

John Keats

W.B. Yeats

Lord Byron
14 Who wrote "Cross"?

Natasha Trethewey

James Weldon Johnson

Langston Hughes

Claude McKay
15 Where did Cullen attend college?

Queens College

Brooklyn 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"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"And here the fair folk talk,"
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 onlookers stare and whisper

When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters cross the street

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

Holding hands

Walking arm in arm

Hugging

Being far apart
21 What does the word "sable" mean?

a cut of cloth

satin

black

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

"Oblivious to look and word"

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"In unison to walk."
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?

Lightning

Rain

Night

Day
24 When was Cullen born?

1903

1900

1905

1901
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?

Sun

Magnificence

Brightness

Yellow

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