From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1942

1909

1931

1927
2 What is the poem about?

The length of a shadow

The events of a Stephen King novel

The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower
3 What is the form of the poem?

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet

Haiku

English sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The French Symbolist Movement

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain School
5 What pronoun does the speaker us in the poem?

We

She

I

He
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Two tercets

Five couplets and a monostich

An octave and a sestet

Three quatrains
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?

Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Zora Neale Hurston

Sylvia Plath
9 What other writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

Toni Morrison

T.S. Eliot

Claude McKay

Gertrude Stein
10 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Leaves

Darkness

Swords

Roots
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?

Jean Toomer

Claudia Rankine

Countee Cullen

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

That they serve no function

That they are unnoticeable

That they are as beautiful as the stars

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

Farm work

Thankless labor

A potentially better future

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

"Georgia Dusk"

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"
15 What is the tone of the poem?

Passionate but unfocused

Anxious and uncertain

Resigned and dejected

Angry but hopeful
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?

ABCABC

It doesn't have one

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

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

Bleeding hearts

Sunflowers

Snapdragons

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

Facial expression

Internal feeling

Overwhelming emotion

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

Cane

The Weary Blues

Copper Sun

Color
23 What is the primary conflict of the poem?

The speaker's frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free

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

The speaker's wish to move away
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 expresses outrage

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

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

The dark parts of the night sky

Seeds

Blooming flowers

White stars

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