Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2012

2020

2005

2015
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Somber

Elegiac

Upbeat

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

Collected Works

Thrall

Monument
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
John Adams

George Washington

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson
5 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Sestets

Ocrtaves

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

Mount Vernon

Monticello

Alexandria
7 What does the speaker compare her father to?
A portrait

A song

A field guild

A bird
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Historical poetry

Aubade

Confessional poetry

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

Her relationship with her grandfather

Her relationship with the past

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

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"his forehead white with illumination —"

"at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned:"
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?
In Colonial Williamsburg

At Monticello

In Washington D.C.

At Harper's Ferry
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
James Baldwin

Gwendolyn Brooks

Maya Angelou

Langston Hughes
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's bad relationship with her father

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello

The speaker's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

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

The speaker's father

A portrait of Jefferson

Monticello
17 How long is the poem?
Twenty lines

Eighteen stanzas

Seventeen lines

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?
Free verse

Dactylic trimeter

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Charlottesville, Virginia

Austin, Texas

Newport, Rhode Island

Gulfport, Mississippi
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

Critical

Angry

Joking
23 To what does the phrase "dark subtext" refer?
The poor quality of his portrait

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

The speaker's father's marital problems
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker visits Monticello

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
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker's father

Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings

The speaker

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