1 When was "Enlightenment" published? 2015 2020 2005 2012 2 What is the tone of the poem? Contemplative Elegiac Somber Upbeat 3 What was the name of the collection the poem was included in? Thrall Native Guard Monument Collected Works 4 What historical figure is the poem about? Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson John Adams George Washington 5 What type of stanzas does the poem have? Ocrtaves Tercets Sestets Couplets 6 What is the name of Jefferson's home? Alexandria Mount Vernon Homestead Monticello 7 What does the speaker compare her father to? A field guild A bird A song A portrait 8 What is the genre of the poem? Confessional poetry Ode Aubade Historical poetry 9 What relationship does the speaker explore in the poem? Her relationship with her father Her relationship with her mother Her relationship with her grandfather Her relationship with the past 10 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration? "his forehead white with illumination —" "across the centuries, his lips fixed as if" "at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned:" "In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs" 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 In Colonial Williamsburg At Harper's Ferry In Washington D.C. 13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"? Gwendolyn Brooks Langston Hughes James Baldwin Maya Angelou 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 not wanting to visit Monticello The speaker's dislike of Virginia 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? Monticello A portrait of Jefferson Jefferson's horse stable 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? "Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts" "Incident" "Medusa" "Shiloh" 19 What is the meter of the poem? Trochaic hexameter Iambic pentameter Free verse Dactylic trimeter 20 Where was Trethewey born? Gulfport, Mississippi Newport, Rhode Island Charlottesville, Virginia Austin, Texas 21 What was the name of the slave with whom Jefferson had an affair? Susan Hartfield Sally Hemings Sarah Henfield Sally Hess 22 What is the tone of the line "This is where / we split up. I'll head around to the back"? Bitter Angry Joking Critical 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 Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War The poor quality of his portrait 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 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 Thomas Jefferson The speaker's father
