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?
Free verse

Formalist

Futurist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form
ballad

romantic

sonnet

stanza
4 The poem takes place in
Bakersfield

Paris

Baltimore

Boston
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both
smiling

ten and tall

African American

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

a creature or human

white

a little bit
7 What can the speaker remember about Baltimore?
the rain and snow

the color of the trees

the name of the other boy

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

irony

alliteration

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

motif

allegory

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

W.E.B. Du Bois

John Keats

Langston Hughes
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?
The second and fourth

All of them

The first and third

The first and second

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