Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2001

2006

2015

2000
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Earnest and simple

Dark and eerie

Warm and direct

Distant and removed
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Parker's Mood

Myth

Incident

Native Guard
4 What kind of story does the mood of the poem imitate?
A sea shanty

A heroic ballad

A ghost story

A love song
5 What does the poem depict?
A murder in the woods

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross

A major holiday

A family's home being burned down
6 What prize did Trethewey receive for the collection that "Incident" was included in?
The National Book Award

The Pulitzer Prize

A Golden Globe

The Bollingen Prize
7 What form does the poem utilize?
Pantoum

Sonnet

Villanelle

Haiku
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Richmond, Virginia

Montreal, Canada

Austin, Texas

Gulfport, Mississippi
9 What is the structure of a pantoum?
Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables

Ten lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, followed by a rhyming couplet

Six lines with an ABBACC rhyme scheme

The second and fourth lines of a stanza are reused as the first and third lines of the next stanza
10 Where is the poem set?
In Birmingham, Alabama

In the woods

In Little Rock, Arkansas

In a small town at night, likely in the South
11 What is the title of the collection the poem was originally included in?
Monument

Thrall

Native Guard

Domestic Work
12 What pronoun does the speaker use to refer to themselves?
They

We

She

I
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"It seemed the angels had gathered, white men in their gowns."

"at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,"

"We tell the story every year—"

"we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps."
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Angels

Loose flames

Demons

Beasts
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;"

"the charred grass still green."

"Nothing really happened."

"By morning all the flames had dimmed."
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
An oil lantern

A specially designed lightbulb

A flashlight

A candle
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because the fire wasn't burning brightly

Because the men outside were afraid

Because it suggests the fear they felt in that moment

Because it rhymes with the next line
18 Which of the following is an important symbol in the poem?
The moon

Rivers

Flames

The trees
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
The morning after the cross burning

When the speaker retells the story

When the men are shown around the cross

When the speaker peers out the window
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
A disembodied force

The other townspeople

The governor

The members of the Klan
21 What is the meaning of the word "charred"?
Grilled

Crunched

Shining brightly

Burnt and blackened
22 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Storytelling

Love

Fear

Repression
23 What is depicted in the poem "Myth"?
The story of Hades

The story of Iphigenia

The story of Orpheus

The story of Icarus
24 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastiche

Ekphrasis

Historical poetry

Victorian poetry
25 What is foreshadowed in the poem's opening lines?
That the speaker is nosy

That the speaker witnessed something troubling

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

That the speaker's family is close

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