From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1909

1942

1931

1927
2 What is the poem about?
A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel
3 What is the form of the poem?
Haiku

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle

English sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Black Mountain School

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
We

I

He

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
An octave and a sestet

Two tercets

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the first two lines

In the octave

In the volta

In the tercet
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot

Claude McKay

Toni Morrison
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Roots

Leaves

Darkness

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Countee Cullen

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
A potentially better future

Harvest season

Thankless labor

Farm work
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"Brass Spittoons"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Passionate but unfocused

Resigned and dejected

Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
bright

colored darkly

the night sky

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC

It doesn't have one

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

Snapdragons

Gardenias
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Internal feeling

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Initial impression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Color

The Weary Blues

Cane

Copper Sun
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

The speaker's frustration with their job
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

Blooming flowers

Seeds

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