Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2015

2012

2020

2005
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Contemplative

Elegiac

Somber

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

Thrall

Monument

Native Guard
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

Tercets

Ocrtaves

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

Homestead

Monticello

Mount Vernon
7 What does the speaker compare her father to?
A song

A bird

A portrait

A field guild
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Ode

Confessional poetry

Aubade

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

Her relationship with her grandfather

Her relationship with her mother

Her relationship with the past
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?
Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson

A tour guide at Monticello

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

At Harper's Ferry

At Monticello

In Colonial Williamsburg
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
Langston Hughes

Maya Angelou

James Baldwin

Gwendolyn Brooks
14 What does the speaker compare the past to?
A beautiful ruin

An abandoned city

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's disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker's dislike of Virginia

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello
16 What image does the poem begin with?
The speaker's father

Jefferson's horse stable

Monticello

A portrait of Jefferson
17 How long is the poem?
Eighteen stanzas

Five stanzas

Twenty lines

Seventeen lines
18 Which of the following is a poem by Robert Lowell?
"Shiloh"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Medusa"

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

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Dactylic trimeter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Newport, Rhode Island

Gulfport, Mississippi

Charlottesville, Virginia

Austin, Texas
21 What was the name of the slave with whom Jefferson had an affair?
Sally Hess

Sarah Henfield

Susan Hartfield

Sally Hemings
22 What is the tone of the line "This is where / we split up. I'll head around to the back"?
Angry

Joking

Critical

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

The speaker's father's marital problems

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life

The poor quality of his portrait
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird

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
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

Sally Hemings

The speaker's father

Thomas Jefferson

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