Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2015

2005

2020

2012
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?
Thrall

Collected Works

Monument

Native Guard
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams

George Washington
5 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Ocrtaves

Tercets

Sestets
6 What is the name of Jefferson's home?
Homestead

Monticello

Mount Vernon

Alexandria
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?
Ode

Historical poetry

Aubade

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

Her relationship with her mother

Her relationship with her grandfather

Her relationship with her father
10 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned:"

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"his forehead white with illumination —"

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Sally Hemings

A tour guide at Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

Natasha Trethewey
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
At Harper's Ferry

In Colonial Williamsburg

In Washington D.C.

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

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

Maya Angelou
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A deserted castle

An abandoned city

A haunted villa

A beautiful ruin
15 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello

The speaker's dislike of Virginia

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker's bad relationship with her father
16 What image does the poem begin with?
A portrait of Jefferson

Jefferson's horse stable

The speaker's father

Monticello
17 How long is the poem?
Seventeen lines

Twenty lines

Eighteen stanzas

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

"Shiloh"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

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

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic trimeter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Charlottesville, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

Austin, Texas

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

Susan Hartfield

Sally Hemings

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

Critical

Bitter

Joking
23 To what does the phrase "dark subtext" refer?
The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life

The speaker's father's marital problems

The poor quality of his portrait

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker visits Monticello

When the speaker realizes her father feels some connection to Jefferson

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

When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
Sally Hemings

The speaker

The speaker's father

Thomas Jefferson

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