From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1909

1927

1931

1942
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?

Haiku

English sonnet

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Black Mountain School

The French Symbolist Movement

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

He

We

I

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet

Three quatrains

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

In the first two lines

In the tercet

In the volta

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

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath

Edna St. Vincent Millay
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?

Swords

Leaves

Roots

Darkness
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen
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 a void

That they serve no function

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

Harvest season

Thankless labor

Farm work

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

"From the Dark Tower"

"Georgia Dusk"

"Harvest Song"

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

Anxious and uncertain

Angry but hopeful

Passionate but unfocused

Resigned and dejected
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?

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABCABC

ABAB

It doesn't have one
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

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?

Snapdragons

Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

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

Internal feeling

Facial expression

Overwhelming emotion

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

Copper Sun

Color

The Weary Blues

Cane
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's frustration with their job

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 desire to be free
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?

Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

Blooming flowers

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