Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
the Renaissance

the Harlem Renaissance

Vorticism

Romanticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Free verse

Formalist

Blues

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
sonnet

ballad

stanza

romantic
4 The poem takes place in
Bakersfield

Baltimore

Paris

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

African American

eight and small

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

being called the n-word

the rain and snow

the color of the trees
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of
irony

paradox

alliteration

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

motif

enjambment

allegory
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
John Keats

Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
Simply a poet

a New York poet

a Romantic poet

an African American poet
12 In ballad form, which lines of each stanza rhyme?
All of them

The first and second

The second and fourth

The first and third

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