Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2015

2000

2006

2001
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Distant and removed

Dark and eerie

Warm and direct

Earnest and simple
3 Which of the following is NOT a poem by Trethewey?
Myth

Incident

Native Guard

Parker's Mood
4 What kind of story does the mood of the poem imitate?
A heroic ballad

A love song

A ghost story

A sea shanty
5 What does the poem depict?
A family's home being burned down

A murder in the woods

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross

A major holiday
6 What prize did Trethewey receive for the collection that "Incident" was included in?
The Bollingen Prize

The National Book Award

The Pulitzer Prize

A Golden Globe
7 What form does the poem utilize?
Sonnet

Haiku

Pantoum

Villanelle
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Montreal, Canada

Richmond, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

Austin, Texas
9 What is the structure of a pantoum?
Six lines with an ABBACC rhyme scheme

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

Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables

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 Little Rock, Arkansas

In the woods

In a small town at night, likely in the South

In Birmingham, Alabama
11 What is the title of the collection the poem was originally included in?
Thrall

Monument

Native Guard

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

We

I

She
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,"

"we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps."

"It seemed the angels had gathered, white men in their gowns."

"We tell the story every year—"
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Demons

Angels

Loose flames

Beasts
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"Nothing really happened."

"The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;"

"the charred grass still green."

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

A flashlight

A specially designed lightbulb

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 it rhymes with the next line

Because the men outside were afraid

Because it suggests the fear they felt in that moment
18 Which of the following is an important symbol in the poem?
The moon

Rivers

The trees

Flames
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker peers out the window

The morning after the cross burning

When the men are shown around the cross

When the speaker retells the story
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
The members of the Klan

The other townspeople

The governor

A disembodied force
21 What is the meaning of the word "charred"?
Shining brightly

Grilled

Crunched

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

Storytelling

Fear

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

The story of Icarus

The story of Iphigenia

The story of Hades
24 What is the genre of the poem?
Ekphrasis

Pastiche

Historical poetry

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

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

That the speaker witnessed something troubling

That the speaker's family is close

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