Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
One Way to Heaven

The Medea and Other Poems

Color

Copper Sun
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Triumphant

Cold

Bitter

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Zora Neale Hurston

Natasha Trethewey

Morgan Parker

Maya Angelou
4 When was the poem published?
1931

1925

1919

1903
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A crowd outside a store

A white man crossing the street

People looking out of a window

Two men in an interracial relationship
6 What is the poem's meter
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Ballad meter

Free verse
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Twelve

Three

Two

Four
8 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrasis

Victorian poetry

Love poetry

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

ABAB

ABBA

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Tercets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
The moonlight

A bolt of lightning

Thunder

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

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolists
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
Lord Byron

W.B. Yeats

John Keats

Emily Dickinson
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Langston Hughes

Natasha Trethewey

Claude McKay

James Weldon Johnson
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Brooklyn College

New York University

Columbia University

Queens College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Uncaring

Negative

Ambivalent

Positive
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the main characters cross the street

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

Being far apart

Walking arm in arm

Hugging
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
black

satin

a cut of cloth

soft
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"Oblivious to look and word"

"In unison to walk."

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"The golden splendor of the day,"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Day

Lightning

Night

Rain
24 When was Cullen born?
1905

1903

1900

1901
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Yellow

Sun

Magnificence

Brightness

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