Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

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

One Way to Heaven

Color

Copper Sun
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Triumphant

Cold

Subdued

Bitter
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Morgan Parker

Maya Angelou

Natasha Trethewey

Zora Neale Hurston
4 When was the poem published?
1903

1925

1931

1919
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
A white man crossing the street

Two men in an interracial relationship

A crowd outside a store

People looking out of a window
6 What is the poem's meter
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

Free verse

Ballad meter
7 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Three

Four

Twelve
8 What is the poem's genre?
Love poetry

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis

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

ABBCC

ABBA

ABCABC
10 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Octaves

Couplets

Tercets

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

Thunder

The moonlight

A crystal stair case
12 What literary movement was Cullen commonly associated with?
The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats

The Black Mountain Poets

The French Symbolists
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
Lord Byron

Emily Dickinson

W.B. Yeats

John Keats
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Langston Hughes

Natasha Trethewey
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
Columbia University

Queens College

Brooklyn College

New York University
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The disapproval of outside observers

The couple's romantic bliss

The couple's anger at the outside world

A flower bed
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And here the fair folk talk,"

"Indignant that these two should dare"

"Should blaze the path of thunder."

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"
18 What is the speaker's view of the relationship?
Uncaring

Negative

Positive

Ambivalent
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the onlookers stare and whisper

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

When the onlookers say hateful things

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

Hugging

Being far apart

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

soft

black

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

"In unison to walk."

"Oblivious to look and word"

"The golden splendor of the day,"
23 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Night

Rain

Day

Lightning
24 When was Cullen born?
1903

1900

1905

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

Yellow

Magnificence

Sun

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