From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1931

1909

1942

1927
2 What is the poem about?
A mythic tower

The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel

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

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

Haiku
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Black Mountain School

The French Symbolist Movement

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?
She

I

He

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Two tercets

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet
7 Where is the problem stated in the poem?
In the volta

In the octave

In the first two lines

In the tercet
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?
Sylvia Plath

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

Claude McKay

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

Leaves

Swords

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

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

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function

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

Thankless labor

Harvest season

A potentially better future
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

Passionate but unfocused

Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
colored darkly

the night sky

bright

a soft cloth
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCABC

It doesn't have one

ABBA and then AABBCC

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

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Sunflowers

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

Gardenias
21 What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
Internal feeling

Initial impression

Facial expression

Overwhelming emotion
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 wish to move away

The speaker's frustration with their job
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
White stars

Blooming flowers

Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

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