From the Dark Tower Quizzes

From the Dark Tower Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1909

1927

1942

1931
2 What is the poem about?
A mythic tower

The exploitation of Black labor

The events of a Stephen King novel

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

Villanelle

Haiku

English 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

I

We

She
6 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Two tercets

Three quatrains

An octave and a sestet

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

In the octave

In the tercet

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

Gertrude Stein

Toni Morrison

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

Roots

Leaves

Swords
11 Who wrote "Harvest Song"?
Langston Hughes

Claudia Rankine

Jean Toomer

Countee Cullen
12 What does the speaker say about the dark parts of the night sky?
That they are unnoticeable

That they serve no function

That they are as beautiful as the stars

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

Harvest season

Thankless labor

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

"Harvest Song"

"From the Dark Tower"

"Brass Spittoons"
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?
the night sky

a soft cloth

colored darkly

bright
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
It doesn't have one

ABBA and then AABBCC

ABCABC

ABAB
18 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic octameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,"

"We shall not always plant while others reap"

"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?
Sunflowers

Bleeding hearts

Snapdragons

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

Initial impression

Internal feeling

Facial expression
22 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Color

Copper Sun

Cane

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 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

At the beginning when the speaker makes a strong declaration

In the middle when the speaker describes the night sky

In the middle when the speaker expresses outrage
25 What does the speaker compare Black individuals to?
White stars

Seeds

Blooming flowers

The dark parts of the night sky

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