From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1927

1931

1909

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

A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

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

Haiku

English sonnet

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

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain School
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
He

She

We

I
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 volta

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

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Zora Neale Hurston
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot

Gertrude Stein

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

Leaves

Darkness

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Claudia Rankine
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Harvest season

A potentially better future

Farm work

Thankless labor
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"

"Brass Spittoons"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

Anxious and uncertain

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
the night sky

bright

colored darkly

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

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABCABC

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"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

Bleeding hearts

Gardenias

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

Facial expression

Initial impression

Overwhelming emotion
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
The Weary Blues

Color

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 frustration with their job

The speaker's desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

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
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

Seeds

White stars

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