Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2015

2000

2006

2001
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Distant and removed

Earnest and simple

Dark and eerie

Warm and direct
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Incident

Native Guard

Parker's Mood

Myth
4 What kind of story does the mood of the poem imitate?
A sea shanty

A love song

A heroic ballad

A ghost story
5 What does the poem depict?
A murder in the woods

A family's home being burned down

A major holiday

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross
6 What prize did Trethewey receive for the collection that "Incident" was included in?
A Golden Globe

The Pulitzer Prize

The Bollingen Prize

The National Book Award
7 What form does the poem utilize?
Villanelle

Sonnet

Pantoum

Haiku
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Richmond, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

Montreal, Canada

Austin, Texas
9 What is the structure of a pantoum?
The second and fourth lines of a stanza are reused as the first and third lines of the next stanza

Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables

Six lines with an ABBACC rhyme scheme

Ten lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, followed by a rhyming couplet
10 Where is the poem set?
In Birmingham, Alabama

In a small town at night, likely in the South

In Little Rock, Arkansas

In the woods
11 What is the title of the collection the poem was originally included in?
Domestic Work

Thrall

Monument

Native Guard
12 What pronoun does the speaker use to refer to themselves?
She

We

I

They
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"We tell the story every year—"

"at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,"

"It seemed the angels had gathered, white men in their gowns."

"we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps."
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Loose flames

Beasts

Demons

Angels
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"Nothing really happened."

"By morning all the flames had dimmed."

"the charred grass still green."

"The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;"
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
A candle

An oil lantern

A flashlight

A specially designed lightbulb
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because the fire wasn't burning brightly

Because it suggests the fear they felt in that moment

Because it rhymes with the next line

Because the men outside were afraid
18 Which of the following is an important symbol in the poem?
The trees

Rivers

Flames

The moon
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
The morning after the cross burning

When the speaker retells the story

When the men are shown around the cross

When the speaker peers out the window
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
A disembodied force

The governor

The members of the Klan

The other townspeople
21 What is the meaning of the word "charred"?
Burnt and blackened

Crunched

Grilled

Shining brightly
22 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Repression

Love

Storytelling

Fear
23 What is depicted in the poem "Myth"?
The story of Icarus

The story of Iphigenia

The story of Orpheus

The story of Hades
24 What is the genre of the poem?
Historical poetry

Pastiche

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis
25 What is foreshadowed in the poem's opening lines?
That the speaker is nosy

That the speaker's family is close

That the speaker witnessed something troubling

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

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