Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
Copper Sun

Color

One Way to Heaven

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

Triumphant

Cold

Bitter
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker

Natasha Trethewey

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1925

1919

1931

1903
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A crowd outside a store

People looking out of a window

Two men in an interracial relationship

A white man crossing the street
6 What is the poem's meter
Ballad meter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

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

Two

Twelve

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

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis

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

ABBA

ABCABC

ABBCC
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 bolt of lightning

A crystal stair case
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolists

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

W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson

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

Claude McKay

Natasha Trethewey

Langston Hughes
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
New York University

Queens College

Columbia University

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

A flower bed

The couple's anger at the outside world

The disapproval of outside observers
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Indignant that these two should dare"

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

Ambivalent

Negative

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

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

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the onlookers say hateful things
20 How are the two men described?
Holding hands

Walking arm in arm

Hugging

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

a cut of cloth

black

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

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"In unison to walk."

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

Rain

Day

Lightning
24 When was Cullen born?
1905

1903

1901

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

Sun

Brightness

Yellow

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