Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quizzes

Incident (Trethewey Poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2000

2006

2015

2001
2 What word best describes the poem's tone?
Dark and eerie

Distant and removed

Warm and direct

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

Myth

Incident

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

A love song

A sea shanty

A ghost story
5 What does the poem depict?
A major holiday

A murder in the woods

Members of the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross

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

The Bollingen Prize

A Golden Globe

The National Book Award
7 What form does the poem utilize?
Sonnet

Pantoum

Villanelle

Haiku
8 Where was Trethewey born?
Richmond, Virginia

Montreal, Canada

Gulfport, Mississippi

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

Two lines of five syllables and one line of seven syllables

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

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

Domestic Work

Monument

Native Guard
12 What pronoun does the speaker use to refer to themselves?
I

She

They

We
13 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"We tell the story every year—"

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

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

"at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,"
14 What does the speaker compare the Klan members to?
Angels

Demons

Beasts

Loose flames
15 Which of the following lines is an example of personification?
"the charred grass still green."

"Nothing really happened."

"By morning all the flames had dimmed."

"The wicks trembled all night in their fonts of oil;"
16 What is a "hurricane lamp"?
A candle

An oil lantern

A flashlight

A specially designed lightbulb
17 Why does the speaker use the word "trembling" to describe the wick of the hurricane lamp?
Because the men outside were afraid

Because it rhymes with the next line

Because it suggests the fear they felt in that moment

Because the fire wasn't burning brightly
18 Which of the following is an important symbol in the poem?
The moon

The trees

Rivers

Flames
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker retells the story

The morning after the cross burning

When the speaker peers out the window

When the men are shown around the cross
20 Who are the antagonists of the poem?
The members of the Klan

The other townspeople

A disembodied force

The governor
21 What is the meaning of the word "charred"?
Shining brightly

Burnt and blackened

Grilled

Crunched
22 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Storytelling

Fear

Repression

Love
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?
Pastiche

Ekphrasis

Victorian poetry

Historical 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's family is close

That the speaker is bad at telling stories

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