Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

Vorticism

the Harlem Renaissance

Romanticism

the Renaissance
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Formalist

Blues

Futurist

Free verse
3 Incident is written in ___ form

ballad

sonnet

stanza

romantic
4 The poem takes place in

Boston

Paris

Bakersfield

Baltimore
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

a creature or human

white
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?

the rain and snow

the color of the trees

being called the n-word

the name of the other boy
8 "Heart-filled, head-filled" is an example of

irony

paradox

chiasmus

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

motif

allegory

allusion

enjambment
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

W.E.B. Du Bois

John Keats

Countee Cullen

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

a New York poet

a Romantic poet

an African American poet

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

The second and fourth

The first and second

The first and third

All of them

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