Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
The Medea and Other Poems

Copper Sun

One Way to Heaven

Color
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Bitter

Cold

Subdued

Triumphant
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Morgan Parker

Natasha Trethewey

Maya Angelou

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1903

1925

1931

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A crowd outside a store

A white man crossing the street

People looking out of a window

Two men in an interracial relationship
6 What is the poem's meter
Dactylic octameter

Ballad meter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Two

Twelve

Three
8 What is the poem's genre?
Victorian poetry

Love poetry

Pastoral ode

Ekphrasis
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABCABC

ABBCC

ABBA
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets

Octaves
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
Thunder

A crystal stair case

A bolt of lightning

The moonlight
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Beats

The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolists
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
John Keats

Lord Byron

W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Natasha Trethewey

Claude McKay

James Weldon Johnson

Langston Hughes
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Columbia University

Brooklyn College

New York University

Queens College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
A flower bed

The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"And here the fair folk talk,"
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Negative

Ambivalent

Positive

Uncaring
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the main characters cross the street

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others
20 How are the two men described?
Walking arm in arm

Holding hands

Being far apart

Hugging
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
a cut of cloth

satin

black

soft
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"In unison to walk."

"Oblivious to look and word"

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"And here the fair folk talk,"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Rain

Lightning

Day

Night
24 When was Cullen born?
1903

1901

1900

1905
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Brightness

Magnificence

Sun

Yellow

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