Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2005

2012

2020

2015
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Contemplative

Upbeat

Elegiac

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

Thrall

Native Guard

Monument
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

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

Couplets

Sestets

Ocrtaves
6 What is the name of Jefferson's home?
Monticello

Alexandria

Homestead

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

A field guild

A portrait

A song
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Historical poetry

Aubade

Confessional poetry

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

Her relationship with her father

Her relationship with her mother

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

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"

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

"his forehead white with illumination —"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A tour guide at Monticello

Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson

Natasha Trethewey
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
At Monticello

In Colonial Williamsburg

In Washington D.C.

At Harper's Ferry
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
Gwendolyn Brooks

Maya Angelou

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A haunted villa

A beautiful ruin

An abandoned city

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

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello

The speaker's bad relationship with her father

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

Jefferson's horse stable

Monticello

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

Seventeen lines

Twenty lines

Eighteen stanzas
18 Which of the following is a poem by Robert Lowell?
"Incident"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Shiloh"

"Medusa"
19 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Dactylic trimeter

Trochaic hexameter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Charlottesville, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

Newport, Rhode Island

Austin, Texas
21 What was the name of the slave with whom Jefferson had an affair?
Susan Hartfield

Sarah Henfield

Sally Hemings

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

Joking

Angry

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

The speaker's father's marital problems

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker realizes her father feels some connection to Jefferson

When the speaker visits Monticello

When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird

When the speaker makes fun of a tour guide's remark
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings

The speaker's father

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