Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
Color

Copper Sun

The Medea and Other Poems

One Way to Heaven
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Bitter

Triumphant

Cold

Subdued
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Morgan Parker

Natasha Trethewey

Maya Angelou

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1931

1919

1925

1903
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
Free verse

Ballad meter

Dactylic octameter

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

Four

Twelve

Two
8 What is the poem's genre?
Pastoral ode

Victorian poetry

Love poetry

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABBCC
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
11 What does the speaker compare the couple to?
The moonlight

Thunder

A crystal stair case

A bolt of lightning
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The French Symbolists

The Beats

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain Poets
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
Lord Byron

John Keats

W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
James Weldon Johnson

Natasha Trethewey

Langston Hughes

Claude McKay
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Columbia University

New York University

Queens College

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?
"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

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

Negative

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 main characters pay no attention to the indignation of others

When the onlookers say hateful things
20 How are the two men described?
Holding hands

Walking arm in arm

Hugging

Being far apart
21 What does the word "sable" mean?
soft

satin

a cut of cloth

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

"The golden splendor of the day,"

"Oblivious to look and word"

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

Day

Lightning

Rain
24 When was Cullen born?
1900

1901

1903

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

Magnificence

Brightness

Yellow

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