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?
Futurist

Free verse

Blues

Formalist
3 Incident is written in ___ form
sonnet

ballad

romantic

stanza
4 The poem takes place in
Baltimore

Bakersfield

Boston

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

ten and tall

smiling

African American
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?
white

intelligence

a little bit

a creature or human
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the name of the other boy

the color of the trees

the rain and snow

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

alliteration

paradox

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

allusion

motif

enjambment
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by
Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

W.E.B. Du Bois

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

an African American poet

a Romantic poet

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

The first and third

The first and second

The second and fourth

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