From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1931

1942

1909

1927
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?

Haiku

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

Villanelle
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Black Mountain School

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolist Movement
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

He

I

She

We
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

An octave and a sestet

Three quatrains

Two tercets

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

In the octave

In the tercet

In the volta

In the first two lines
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

Claude McKay

Gertrude Stein

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

Darkness

Swords

Roots

Leaves
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Jean Toomer

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?

That they are as beautiful as the stars

That they serve no function

That they are unnoticeable

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

A potentially better future

Harvest season

Farm work

Thankless labor
14 Which of the following poems was written by Langston Hughes?

"Brass Spittoons"

"Georgia Dusk"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Harvest Song"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Anxious and uncertain

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused

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

a soft cloth

colored darkly

bright

the night sky
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

It doesn't have one

ABCABC
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"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?

Bleeding hearts

Gardenias

Sunflowers

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

Overwhelming emotion

Initial impression

Facial expression

Internal feeling
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

The Weary Blues

Cane

Copper Sun

Color
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's wish to move away

The speaker's frustration with their job

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?

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

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
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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