Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
The Medea and Other Poems

Copper Sun

Color

One Way to Heaven
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Bitter

Cold

Triumphant

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Maya Angelou

Zora Neale Hurston

Natasha Trethewey

Morgan Parker
4 When was the poem published?
1931

1925

1903

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
Two men in an interracial relationship

People looking out of a window

A crowd outside a store

A white man crossing the street
6 What is the poem's meter
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Dactylic octameter

Ballad meter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Two

Twelve

Three
8 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrasis

Love poetry

Victorian poetry

Pastoral ode
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBCC

ABAB

ABBA

ABCABC
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves

Tercets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
A bolt of lightning

Thunder

The moonlight

A crystal stair case
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain Poets

The French Symbolists

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
Emily Dickinson

Lord Byron

John Keats

W.B. Yeats
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Natasha Trethewey

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Queens College

New York University

Columbia University

Brooklyn College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The couple's anger at the outside world

A flower bed

The couple's romantic bliss

The disapproval of outside observers
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Uncaring

Ambivalent

Positive

Negative
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters cross the street

When the onlookers stare and whisper
20 How are the two men described?
Holding hands

Hugging

Walking arm in arm

Being far apart
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
black

soft

a cut of cloth

satin
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"In unison to walk."

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"Oblivious to look and word"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Rain

Lightning

Day

Night
24 When was Cullen born?
1901

1900

1905

1903
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Brightness

Sun

Magnificence

Yellow

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