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

Copper Sun

Color
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Bitter

Cold

Triumphant

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Maya Angelou

Natasha Trethewey

Zora Neale Hurston

Morgan Parker
4 When was the poem published?
1919

1925

1903

1931
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
Two men in an interracial relationship

A white man crossing the street

A crowd outside a store

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

Dactylic octameter

Free verse

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

Four

Three

Twelve
8 What is the poem's genre?
Love poetry

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastoral ode
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCABC

ABBCC

ABBA

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

A bolt of lightning

A crystal stair case

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

The Black Mountain Poets

The French Symbolists

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

Emily Dickinson

W.B. Yeats

John Keats
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Langston Hughes

Natasha Trethewey

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Brooklyn College

New York University

Queens College

Columbia University
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
A flower bed

The couple's anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss

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,"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Indignant that these two should dare"
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 pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters cross the street
20 How are the two men described?
Hugging

Being far apart

Walking arm in arm

Holding hands
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."

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"And here the fair folk talk,"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Lightning

Rain

Night

Day
24 When was Cullen born?
1905

1901

1900

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

Sun

Magnificence

Brightness

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