From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1931

1927

1909

1942
2 What is the poem about?
The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel

The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower
3 What is the form of the poem?
Villanelle

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

Haiku
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain School

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

I

He

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Three quatrains

Five couplets and a monostich

Two tercets

An octave and a sestet
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the octave

In the first two lines

In the tercet

In the volta
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sylvia Plath

Zora Neale Hurston
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Toni Morrison

Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot

Claude McKay
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Darkness

Swords

Roots

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are unnoticeable

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function

That they are a void
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Thankless labor

Farm work

A potentially better future

Harvest season
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?
Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
colored darkly

bright

the night sky

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
It doesn't have one

ABCABC

ABAB

ABBA and then AABBCC
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Snapdragons

Gardenias

Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Overwhelming emotion

Initial impression

Internal feeling

Facial expression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Copper Sun

The Weary Blues

Color

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away

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?
In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage
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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