Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

the Renaissance

Vorticism

Romanticism

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

Blues

Free verse

Futurist

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form

romantic

ballad

stanza

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in

Boston

Baltimore

Paris

Bakersfield
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

ten and tall

smiling

African American

eight and small
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?

intelligence

a little bit

white

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

the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the name of the other boy

the rain and snow
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of

paradox

alliteration

irony

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

enjambment

allegory

allusion

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

Langston Hughes

John Keats

Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?

a Romantic poet

a New York poet

an African American poet

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

The second and fourth

All of them

The first and second

The first and third

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