Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
Copper Sun

The Medea and Other Poems

Color

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

Cold

Subdued

Bitter
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Zora Neale Hurston

Morgan Parker

Maya Angelou

Natasha Trethewey
4 When was the poem published?
1919

1903

1931

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

Two men in an interracial relationship

People looking out of a window

A crowd outside a store
6 What is the poem's meter
Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Ballad meter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Twelve

Four

Three

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

Victorian poetry

Love poetry

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

ABBCC

ABCABC

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

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
A bolt of lightning

A crystal stair case

Thunder

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

The French Symbolists

The Beats

The Black Mountain Poets
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson

John Keats

Lord Byron
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Claude McKay

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson

Natasha Trethewey
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Columbia University

Queens College

New York University

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

The disapproval of outside observers

A flower bed

The couple's anger at the outside world
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"And here the fair folk talk,"
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Negative

Ambivalent

Uncaring

Positive
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 say hateful things

When the onlookers stare and whisper
20 How are the two men described?
Walking arm in arm

Hugging

Holding hands

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

soft

a cut of cloth

black
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"In unison to walk."

"The golden splendor of the day,"

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

Day

Rain

Night
24 When was Cullen born?
1903

1900

1905

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

Sun

Brightness

Magnificence

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