Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Vorticism

the Renaissance

Romanticism

the Harlem Renaissance
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Free verse

Futurist

Formalist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form
stanza

sonnet

ballad

romantic
4 The poem takes place in
Bakersfield

Baltimore

Boston

Paris
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
eight and small

African American

ten and tall

smiling
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
a little bit

intelligence

white

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the rain and snow

the color of the trees

the name of the other boy

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

alliteration

chiasmus

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

motif

enjambment

allegory
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

John Keats
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
an African American poet

Simply a poet

a New York poet

a Romantic poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
The first and third

The second and fourth

The first and second

All of them

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