From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1942

1909

1927

1931
2 What is the poem about?

The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower

The events of a Stephen King novel

The length of a shadow
3 What is the form of the poem?

Villanelle

English sonnet

Haiku

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The French Symbolist Movement

The Black Mountain School

The Harlem Renaissance

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

He

We

She

I
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?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

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

Toni Morrison

Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot

Claude McKay
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Roots

Swords

Leaves

Darkness
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Countee Cullen
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 unnoticeable

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

Farm work

A potentially better future

Thankless labor

Harvest season
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Brass Spittoons"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Angry but hopeful

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused

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

the night sky

bright

a soft cloth

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

ABBA and then AABBCC

It doesn't have one

ABAB

ABCABC
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic octameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Sunflowers

Gardenias

Snapdragons

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

Initial impression

Internal feeling

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

Copper Sun

The Weary Blues

Cane

Color
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's desire for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

The speaker's frustration with their job
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 expresses outrage

At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?

Seeds

Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

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