Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
the Harlem Renaissance

Romanticism

the Renaissance

Vorticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Formalist

Blues

Futurist

Free verse
3 Incident is written in ___ form
romantic

ballad

sonnet

stanza
4 The poem takes place in
Baltimore

Paris

Bakersfield

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

African American

eight and small

ten and tall
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
intelligence

a little bit

a creature or human

white
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the rain and snow

the name of the other boy
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of
alliteration

irony

chiasmus

paradox
9 "He poked out / His tongue" is an example of
motif

allegory

enjambment

allusion
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Langston Hughes

John Keats

Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
Simply a poet

a New York poet

an African American poet

a Romantic poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The second and fourth

The first and third

All of them

The first and second

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