From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1927

1909

1942

1931
2 What is the poem about?
A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel
3 What is the form of the poem?
Petrarchan sonnet

Haiku

English sonnet

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Beats

The Black Mountain School

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolist Movement
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
He

I

We

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains

Two tercets
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the octave

In the first two lines

In the volta

In the tercet
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sylvia Plath

Zora Neale Hurston
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Claude McKay

Toni Morrison

Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Darkness

Roots

Swords

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
Farm work

A potentially better future

Harvest season

Thankless labor
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?
"Harvest Song"

"Georgia Dusk"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"
15 What is the tone of the poem?
Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
a soft cloth

bright

colored darkly

the night sky
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

It doesn't have one

ABCABC
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Bleeding hearts

Gardenias

Snapdragons

Sunflowers
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Initial impression

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Internal feeling
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Copper Sun

Color

Cane

The Weary Blues
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

The speaker's frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
The dark parts of the night sky

Seeds

Blooming flowers

White stars

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