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?
Free verse

Blues

Futurist

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
romantic

sonnet

ballad

stanza
4 The poem takes place in
Paris

Baltimore

Bakersfield

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

ten and tall

eight and small

African American
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
a little bit

intelligence

white

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the color of the trees

the rain and snow

the name of the other boy

being called the n-word
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of
alliteration

paradox

chiasmus

irony
9 "He poked out / His tongue" is an example of
allusion

motif

allegory

enjambment
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

John Keats

W.E.B. Du Bois
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
an African American poet

Simply a poet

a Romantic poet

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

The first and third

The first and second

All of them

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