Incident Quizzes

Incident Quiz

1 Which literary movement was Cullen a part of?

Vorticism

Romanticism

the Harlem Renaissance

the Renaissance
2 What style of poetry did Cullen prefer?

Futurist

Free verse

Formalist

Blues
3 Incident is written in ___ form

ballad

romantic

stanza

sonnet
4 The poem takes place in

Baltimore

Bakersfield

Boston

Paris
5 The speaker and the Baltimorean are both

eight and small

ten and tall

African American

smiling
6 Which of the following can "whit" NOT mean?

white

a creature or human

intelligence

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

being called the n-word

the rain and snow

the color of the trees

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

alliteration

chiasmus

irony

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

allegory

allusion

enjambment

motif
10 "Double consciousness" is a concept formulated by

John Keats

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

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

Simply a poet

an African American poet

a New York poet

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

The first and second

All of them

The first and third

The second and fourth

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