Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
The Medea and Other Poems

Copper Sun

One Way to Heaven

Color
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Subdued

Cold

Bitter

Triumphant
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Natasha Trethewey

Morgan Parker

Zora Neale Hurston

Maya Angelou
4 When was the poem published?
1931

1903

1925

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
People looking out of a window

Two men in an interracial relationship

A crowd outside a store

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

Free verse

Ballad meter

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

Two

Four

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

Victorian poetry

Love poetry

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

ABBCC

ABBA

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
A crystal stair case

A bolt of lightning

Thunder

The moonlight
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolists

The Black Mountain Poets

The Beats
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

James Weldon Johnson

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

Queens College

Brooklyn College

Columbia University
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The disapproval of outside observers

A flower bed

The couple's romantic bliss

The couple's anger at the outside world
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

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

When the onlookers say hateful things
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

soft

satin

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

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"The golden splendor of the day,"

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

Rain

Day

Lightning
24 When was Cullen born?
1905

1903

1900

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

Brightness

Sun

Magnificence

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