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?
The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel

A mythic tower

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

Villanelle

English sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The French Symbolist Movement

The Beats

The Black Mountain School

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

We

He

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
An octave and a sestet

Three quatrains

Five couplets and a monostich

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

In the tercet

In the first two lines

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
T.S. Eliot

Toni Morrison

Gertrude Stein

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

Leaves

Roots

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they serve no function

That they are a void

That they are unnoticeable

That they are as beautiful as the stars
13 What do seeds represent in the poem?
A potentially better future

Thankless labor

Farm work

Harvest season
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?
Angry but hopeful

Anxious and uncertain

Resigned and dejected

Passionate but unfocused
16 What does the word "sable" mean?
bright

colored darkly

a soft cloth

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

It doesn't have one

ABAB

ABBA and then AABBCC
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

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,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?
Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

Gardenias

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

Facial expression

Initial impression

Overwhelming emotion
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Cane

Color

Copper Sun

The Weary Blues
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?
The speaker's desire to be free

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
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

The dark parts of the night sky

White stars

Blooming flowers

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