Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2015

2012

2005

2020
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Somber

Upbeat

Elegiac

Contemplative
3 What was the name of the collection the poem was included in?
Collected Works

Native Guard

Monument

Thrall
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

John Adams

Alexander Hamilton
5 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Sestets

Ocrtaves

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

Alexandria

Monticello

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

A bird

A portrait

A song
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Aubade

Ode

Historical poetry

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

Her relationship with the past

Her relationship with her mother

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

"his forehead white with illumination —"

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A tour guide at Monticello

Natasha Trethewey

Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings
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"?
Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

Maya Angelou

Gwendolyn Brooks
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A haunted villa

An abandoned city

A deserted castle

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

The speaker's bad relationship with her father

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker's dislike of Virginia
16 What image does the poem begin with?
A portrait of Jefferson

The speaker's father

Jefferson's horse stable

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?
"Medusa"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Shiloh"

"Incident"
19 What is the meter of the poem?
Trochaic hexameter

Free verse

Dactylic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Austin, Texas

Charlottesville, Virginia

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"?
Joking

Bitter

Angry

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

The poor quality of his portrait

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life

The speaker's father's marital problems
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's father

The speaker

Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson

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