Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2020

2015

2005

2012
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Upbeat

Somber

Elegiac

Contemplative
3 What was the name of the collection the poem was included in?
Monument

Native Guard

Collected Works

Thrall
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
John Adams

George Washington

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson
5 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Ocrtaves

Sestets

Tercets
6 What is the name of Jefferson's home?
Alexandria

Mount Vernon

Homestead

Monticello
7 What does the speaker compare her father to?
A song

A portrait

A field guild

A bird
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Aubade

Confessional poetry

Ode

Historical poetry
9 What relationship does the speaker explore in the poem?
Her relationship with her mother

Her relationship with her father

Her relationship with the past

Her relationship with her grandfather
10 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"his forehead white with illumination —"

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"

"at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned:"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A tour guide at Monticello

Natasha Trethewey

Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
At Monticello

At Harper's Ferry

In Washington D.C.

In Colonial Williamsburg
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

Maya Angelou

Gwendolyn Brooks
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A beautiful ruin

A haunted villa

An abandoned city

A deserted castle
15 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's bad relationship with her father

The speaker's dislike of Virginia

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello
16 What image does the poem begin with?
Monticello

A portrait of Jefferson

Jefferson's horse stable

The speaker's father
17 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Twenty lines

Eighteen stanzas

Seventeen lines
18 Which of the following is a poem by Robert Lowell?
"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Medusa"

"Incident"

"Shiloh"
19 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic trimeter

Free verse

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Gulfport, Mississippi

Austin, Texas

Charlottesville, Virginia

Newport, Rhode Island
21 What was the name of the slave with whom Jefferson had an affair?
Sally Hess

Sally Hemings

Susan Hartfield

Sarah Henfield
22 What is the tone of the line "This is where / we split up. I'll head around to the back"?
Joking

Bitter

Critical

Angry
23 To what does the phrase "dark subtext" refer?
The poor quality of his portrait

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

The speaker's father's marital problems

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker visits Monticello

When the speaker makes fun of a tour guide's remark

When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird

When the speaker realizes her father feels some connection to Jefferson
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

Sally Hemings

The speaker's father

Thomas Jefferson

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