From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1931

1909

1927

1942
2 What is the poem about?

The events of a Stephen King novel

The length of a shadow

A mythic tower

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

Petrarchan sonnet

English sonnet

Haiku

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolist Movement

The Black Mountain School

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

She

He

I

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Three quatrains

Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet

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

In the volta

In the first two lines

In the octave

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

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sylvia Plath
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

Leaves

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they are unnoticeable

That they are a void

That they serve no function
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?

Harvest season

Farm work

Thankless labor

A potentially better future
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"Brass Spittoons"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Harvest Song"

"Georgia Dusk"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Passionate but unfocused

Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain

Resigned and dejected
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

ABBA and then AABBCC

It doesn't have one

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic trimeter
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?

Gardenias

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

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

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Initial impression

Internal feeling
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 for Black people to receive recognition and recompense for their work

The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's frustration with their job
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

At the end, when the speaker expresses hope for the future
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?

Seeds

Blooming flowers

White stars

The dark parts of the night sky

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