Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Harlem Renaissance

the Renaissance

Vorticism

Romanticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Free verse

Formalist

Blues

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form

sonnet

stanza

ballad

romantic
4 The poem takes place in

Paris

Bakersfield

Boston

Baltimore
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

eight and small

smiling

African American

ten and tall
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?

a little bit

a creature or human

white

intelligence
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?

the name of the other boy

the rain and snow

the color of the trees

being called the n-word
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of

chiasmus

irony

paradox

alliteration
9 "He poked out / His tongue" is an example of

allusion

allegory

enjambment

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

John Keats

Countee Cullen
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?

an African American poet

a New York poet

a Romantic poet

Simply a poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?

The first and second

The first and third

All of them

The second and fourth

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