Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2020

2005

2015

2012
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Somber

Contemplative

Upbeat

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

Thrall

Monument

Collected Works
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

Sestets

Ocrtaves

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

Monticello

Alexandria

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

A portrait

A field guild

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

Aubade

Historical poetry

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

Her relationship with the past

Her relationship with her father

Her relationship with her mother
10 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"

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

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

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

Sally Hemings

Natasha Trethewey

Thomas Jefferson
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
At Monticello

At Harper's Ferry

In Colonial Williamsburg

In Washington D.C.
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
Gwendolyn Brooks

Maya Angelou

James Baldwin

Langston Hughes
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A deserted castle

A haunted villa

An abandoned city

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 bad relationship with her father

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson
16 What image does the poem begin with?
Jefferson's horse stable

Monticello

A portrait of Jefferson

The speaker's father
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"

"Medusa"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

Free verse
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Charlottesville, Virginia

Austin, Texas

Gulfport, Mississippi

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

Susan Hartfield

Sally Hess

Sarah Henfield
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 speaker's father's marital problems

The poor quality of his portrait

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker makes fun of a tour guide's remark

When the speaker realizes her father feels some connection to Jefferson

When the speaker visits Monticello

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

The speaker's father

Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings

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