Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?
Romanticism

the Renaissance

the Harlem Renaissance

Vorticism
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?
Blues

Formalist

Free verse

Futurist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
ballad

romantic

stanza

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in
Boston

Paris

Bakersfield

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

intelligence

white

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
being called the n-word

the color of the trees

the rain and snow

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

enjambment

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

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

John Keats
11 Cullen wanted to be seen as what kind of poet?
Simply a poet

an African American poet

a Romantic poet

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

All of them

The second and fourth

The first and second

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