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?
Elegiac

Somber

Upbeat

Contemplative
3 What was the name of the collection the poem was included in?
Native Guard

Monument

Thrall

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

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sestets

Ocrtaves

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

Homestead

Monticello

Mount Vernon
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?
Ode

Aubade

Historical poetry

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

Her relationship with the past

Her relationship with her grandfather

Her relationship with her father
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?
Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings

A tour guide at Monticello

Natasha Trethewey
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
In Washington D.C.

At Harper's Ferry

In Colonial Williamsburg

At Monticello
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
Maya Angelou

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

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

A deserted castle

A haunted villa

A beautiful ruin
15 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello

The speaker's dislike of Virginia

The speaker's bad relationship with her father
16 What image does the poem begin with?
Monticello

The speaker's father

Jefferson's horse stable

A portrait of Jefferson
17 How long is the poem?
Seventeen lines

Five stanzas

Twenty lines

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

"Incident"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Medusa"
19 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic trimeter

Trochaic hexameter

Free verse

Iambic pentameter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Gulfport, Mississippi

Austin, Texas

Newport, Rhode Island

Charlottesville, Virginia
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"?
Angry

Joking

Bitter

Critical
23 To what does the phrase "dark subtext" refer?
Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

The poor quality of his portrait

The speaker's father's marital problems

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 sees a rare Virginia bird

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

When the speaker visits Monticello
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson

The speaker's father

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