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?
Cold

Bitter

Subdued

Triumphant
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker

Natasha Trethewey

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1925

1931

1903

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A crowd outside a store

Two men in an interracial relationship

A white man crossing the street

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

Ballad meter

Free verse

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

Two

Three

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

Pastoral ode

Ekphrasis

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

ABBCC

ABCABC

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

Couplets

Tercets

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

Thunder

The moonlight

A crystal stair case
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?
John Keats

Emily Dickinson

W.B. Yeats

Lord Byron
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Natasha Trethewey
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
New York University

Brooklyn College

Queens 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 anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

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

Positive

Uncaring

Ambivalent
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 main characters cross the street

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

a cut of cloth

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

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"In unison to walk."

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

Night

Rain

Lightning
24 When was Cullen born?
1901

1900

1903

1905
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Yellow

Brightness

Sun

Magnificence

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