Native Guard Quizzes

Native Guard Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed July 13, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

2000

2005

1996

2006
2 What is the poem named after?

Guardian angels

The Louisiana Native Guard

The National Guard

The Royal Guard
3 What prize did the poem receive?

The Nobel

The National Book Award

The Pulitzer

The Poetry Foundation Award
4 Which battle is NOT referenced in the poem?

Antietam

Gettysburg

Fort Pillow

Port Hudson
5 What food is the primary source of sustenance at Fort Massachusetts?

Hardtack

Salted jerky

Buttermilk biscuits

Pancakes
6 Who wrote "but darling you are the sunlight / Volleying down blue air"?

John Berryman

Walt Whitman

E.E. Cummings

Robert Lowell
7 Who was one of the most famous sonnet writers?

T.S. Eliot

Billy Collins

Emily Dickinson

William Shakespare
8 What is a collection of sonnets referred to as?

A crown

A school

A gathering

A selection
9 What is the setting of the poem?

Fort Massachusetts

Pascagoula

A ship called the Northern Star

Fort Pillow
10 What is the form of the poem?

Limerick

Haiku

Ballad

A sequence of sonnets
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

Love poetry

War poetry
12 When does the poem take place?

During the Civil War

During election of 1864

During the Revolutionary War

During Vietnam
13 What is the tone of the poem?

Bitter and dry

Reflective and tragic

Upbeat and comic

Cold and cerebral
14 What is the poem's main conflict?

The speaker's escape from slavery

The speaker not being seen as an equal to white soldiers by his Union army superiors

The speaker's fight on the battlefield against the Confederacy

The speaker's fights with Confederate prisoners
15 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"Yes: I was born a slave, at harvest time,"

"wind in trees choked with vines."

"I'd not dared to travel. Here, now,"

"his story intersecting with my own."
16 Who is the speaker guarding?

Confederate prisoners of war

Union prisoners of war

Louisiana civilians

Other freed slaves
17 What was a notable tragedy of the battle at Pascagoula?

Casualties from friendly fire

Soldiers left to die on the battlefield

Soldiers being fired upon as they surrendered

A resounding Union loss
18 What does General Bankes do in the poem?

Lead a charge

Devise a plan of attack for Port Hudson

Take Confederate prisoners

Leave Black soldiers unclaimed and unburied on a battlefield
19 What does the speaker assist the Confederate prisoners in doing?

Building a wall

Playing card games

Writing letters

Cooking
20 Why does Trethewey choose to structure the poem as a series of journal entries?

To show the speaker's emotional journey from hope to disillusionment over time

To show the passing of the seasons

To reference historical events on specific days

To mimic the tone of diary
21 What does the speaker's unit have its name changed to?

The National Guard

Supply Services

The Florida Native Guard

Corps d'Afrique
22 What act does the speaker believe is essential to remembering events properly?

Telling stories aloud

Taking photographs

Writing

Painting
23 What was the name of the speaker's master?

Dumas

Leighton

Alexander

Banks
24 What image is the speaker haunted by?

Rats

The gravestones at Fort Massachusetts

The corpses of dead Black soldiers

A stormy ocean
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

Abraham Lincoln

John Brown

Frederick Douglass

The speaker

Essays for Native Guard

Native Guard essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Native Guard by Natasha Threthewey.