From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1927

1931

1942

1909
2 What is the poem about?

A mythic tower

The events of a Stephen King novel

The length of a shadow

The exploitation of Black labor
3 What is the form of the poem?

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet

English sonnet

Haiku
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

The Black Mountain School
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

I

He

We

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Three quatrains

Two tercets

An octave and a sestet

Five couplets and a monostich
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?

In the octave

In the volta

In the tercet

In the first two lines
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Edna St. Vincent Millay
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

Claude McKay

T.S. Eliot

Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Swords

Roots

Darkness

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Claudia Rankine

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?

Harvest season

Thankless labor

A potentially better future

Farm work
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"Georgia Dusk"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Angry but hopeful

Passionate but unfocused

Resigned and dejected

Anxious and uncertain
16 What does the word "sable" mean?

bright

a soft cloth

the night sky

colored darkly
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

It doesn't have one

ABCABC

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Sunflowers

Gardenias

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Internal feeling

Initial impression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

The Weary Blues

Copper Sun

Color

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's desire to be free

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 wish to move away
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

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?

Blooming flowers

White stars

Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

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