From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

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1 When was the poem published?

1931

1927

1909

1942
2 What is the poem about?

The events of a Stephen King novel

The exploitation of Black labor

A mythic tower

The length of a shadow
3 What is the form of the poem?

English sonnet

Haiku

Villanelle

Petrarchan sonnet
4 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain School

The Beats

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

I

She

We

He
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Five couplets and a monostich

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet

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

In the tercet

In the octave

In the volta

In the first two lines
8 Who did Cullen identify as a major influence?

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Claude McKay

Toni Morrison

T.S. Eliot

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

Leaves

Roots

Darkness

Swords
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 as beautiful as the stars

That they are unnoticeable

That they are a void
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?

"Brass Spittoons"

"Harvest Song"

"Georgia Dusk"

"From the Dark Tower"
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?

colored darkly

a soft cloth

bright

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

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABAB

ABCABC

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

Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,"

"White stars is no less lovely being dark,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"
20 What flower is referred to in the poem?

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

Sunflowers

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

Overwhelming emotion

Facial expression

Internal feeling

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

Cane

The Weary Blues

Color

Copper Sun
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 frustration with their job

The speaker's desire to be free

The speaker's wish to move away
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?

Blooming flowers

White stars

Seeds

The dark parts of the night sky

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