Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
Color

The Medea and Other Poems

One Way to Heaven

Copper Sun
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Triumphant

Subdued

Bitter

Cold
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Natasha Trethewey

Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1925

1919

1903

1931
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A crowd outside a store

People looking out of a window

A white man crossing the street

Two men in an interracial relationship
6 What is the poem's meter
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Ballad meter

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

Four

Three

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

Love poetry

Ekphrasis

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

ABAB

ABBCC

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

Tercets

Octaves

Quatrains
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 French Symbolists

The Black Mountain Poets

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
W.B. Yeats

Lord Byron

John Keats

Emily Dickinson
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Langston Hughes

Natasha Trethewey

Claude McKay

James Weldon Johnson
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Brooklyn College

New York University

Columbia University

Queens College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

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

Positive

Ambivalent

Uncaring
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?
Holding hands

Hugging

Walking arm in arm

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

a cut of cloth

black

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

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"In unison to walk."

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

Night

Lightning

Day
24 When was Cullen born?
1903

1905

1901

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

Sun

Magnificence

Brightness

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