Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quizzes

Tableau (Countee Cullen poem) Quiz

1 What collection did this poem appear in?
One Way to Heaven

Copper Sun

Color

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

Subdued

Bitter

Cold
3 Who wrote "Miscegenation"?
Natasha Trethewey

Zora Neale Hurston

Maya Angelou

Morgan Parker
4 When was the poem published?
1903

1925

1919

1931
5 Who are the protagonists of the poem?
Two men in an interracial relationship

A crowd outside a store

A white man crossing the street

People looking out of a window
6 What is the poem's meter
Free verse

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic octameter

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

Three

Four

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

Victorian poetry

Ekphrasis

Love poetry
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCABC

ABBCC

ABBA

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

Couplets

Quatrains

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

The moonlight

A crystal stair case

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

The Black Mountain Poets

The Harlem Renaissance

The Beats
13 Which poet was a major influence on Cullen?
W.B. Yeats

Emily Dickinson

John Keats

Lord Byron
14 Who wrote "Cross"?
Claude McKay

James Weldon Johnson

Natasha Trethewey

Langston Hughes
15 Where did Cullen attend college?
New York University

Brooklyn College

Columbia University

Queens College
16 What is depicted in the second stanza of the poem?
The couple's anger at the outside world

A flower bed

The couple's romantic bliss

The disapproval of outside observers
17 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Indignant that these two should dare"

"That lightning brilliant as a sword"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

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

Ambivalent

Negative

Uncaring
19 When does the climax of the poem occur?
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

When the onlookers say hateful things
20 How are the two men described?
Walking arm in arm

Being far apart

Holding hands

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

a cut of cloth

satin

soft
22 Which of the following lines is an examples of hyperbole?
"The golden splendor of the day,"

"Oblivious to look and word"

"And here the fair folk talk,"

"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?
1900

1905

1901

1903
25 What does the word "splendor" mean?
Yellow

Sun

Magnificence

Brightness

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