Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
Color

Copper Sun

One Way to Heaven

The Medea and Other Poems
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Cold

Bitter

Triumphant

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Maya Angelou

Zora Neale Hurston

Morgan Parker

Natasha Trethewey
4 When was the poem published?
1903

1919

1925

1931
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A white man crossing the street

A crowd outside a store

People looking out of a window

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

Free verse

Dactylic octameter

Iambic pentameter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Twelve

Two

Three

Four
8 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrasis

Love poetry

Victorian poetry

Pastoral ode
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABBCC

ABCABC

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

Tercets

Octaves

Couplets
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
A bolt of lightning

A crystal stair case

The moonlight

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

The Harlem Renaissance

The French Symbolists

The Black Mountain Poets
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
Emily Dickinson

John Keats

W.B. Yeats

Lord Byron
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
James Weldon Johnson

Langston Hughes

Natasha Trethewey

Claude McKay
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Columbia University

Queens College

New York University

Brooklyn College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's anger at the outside world

The couple's romantic bliss

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Positive

Negative

Ambivalent

Uncaring
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the onlookers say hateful things

When the main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the onlookers stare and whisper

When the main characters cross the street
20 How are the two men described?
Walking arm in arm

Being far apart

Holding hands

Hugging
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
satin

a cut of cloth

black

soft
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"Oblivious to look and word"

"In unison to walk."
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Day

Lightning

Rain

Night
24 When was Cullen born?
1903

1905

1900

1901
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Yellow

Magnificence

Brightness

Sun

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