Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2012

2005

2020

2015
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Upbeat

Elegiac

Contemplative

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

Native Guard

Thrall

Collected Works
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams
5 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Ocrtaves

Tercets

Sestets

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

Alexandria

Homestead

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

A song

A portrait

A field guild
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Historical poetry

Ode

Aubade

Confessional 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?
"at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned:"

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"

"his forehead white with illumination —"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Natasha Trethewey

Sally Hemings

A tour guide at Monticello

Thomas Jefferson
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
In Colonial Williamsburg

At Harper's Ferry

In Washington D.C.

At Monticello
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
Gwendolyn Brooks

James Baldwin

Langston Hughes

Maya Angelou
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A haunted villa

An abandoned city

A beautiful ruin

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

The speaker's bad relationship with her father

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson
16 What image does the poem begin with?
Monticello

The speaker's father

A portrait of Jefferson

Jefferson's horse stable
17 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Twenty lines

Seventeen lines

Eighteen stanzas
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?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic trimeter

Free verse

Trochaic hexameter
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

Susan Hartfield

Sarah Henfield

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

Angry

Joking

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

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life

The speaker's father's marital problems

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War
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

The speaker's father

Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings

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