Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2020

2012

2015

2005
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Elegiac

Somber

Contemplative

Upbeat
3 What was the name of the collection the poem was included in?
Thrall

Collected Works

Monument

Native Guard
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
John Adams

Alexander Hamilton

George Washington

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

Sestets

Ocrtaves

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

Monticello

Homestead

Alexandria
7 What does the speaker compare her father to?
A field guild

A portrait

A bird

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

Historical poetry

Confessional poetry

Ode
9 What relationship does the speaker explore in the poem?
Her relationship with the past

Her relationship with her mother

Her relationship with her father

Her relationship with her grandfather
10 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"his forehead white with illumination —"

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"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?
In Colonial Williamsburg

At Monticello

At Harper's Ferry

In Washington D.C.
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
James Baldwin

Maya Angelou

Langston Hughes

Gwendolyn Brooks
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
An abandoned city

A beautiful ruin

A haunted villa

A deserted castle
15 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's dislike of Virginia

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker's bad relationship with her father

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

Monticello

The speaker's father

Jefferson's horse stable
17 How long is the poem?
Seventeen lines

Five stanzas

Eighteen stanzas

Twenty lines
18 Which of the following is a poem by Robert Lowell?
"Shiloh"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Medusa"

"Incident"
19 What is the meter of the poem?
Free verse

Dactylic trimeter

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Charlottesville, Virginia

Austin, Texas

Gulfport, Mississippi

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

Sarah Henfield

Susan Hartfield

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

Angry

Critical

Bitter
23 To what does the phrase "dark subtext" refer?
The speaker's father's marital problems

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

The poor quality of his portrait

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird

When the speaker visits Monticello

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

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

The speaker's father

Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson

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