Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2020

2015

2012

2005
2 What is the tone of the poem?
Upbeat

Somber

Contemplative

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

Thrall

Native Guard

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?
Sestets

Tercets

Couplets

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

Homestead

Mount Vernon

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

A field guild

A bird

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

Historical poetry

Ode

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

Her relationship with her mother

Her relationship with her father

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

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"

"his forehead white with illumination —"

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Sally Hemings

A tour guide at Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

Natasha Trethewey
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
At Harper's Ferry

At Monticello

In Washington D.C.

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

James Baldwin

Maya Angelou
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 disagreement with her father about Thomas Jefferson

The speaker's bad relationship with her father

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello

The speaker's dislike of Virginia
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?
Eighteen stanzas

Seventeen lines

Five stanzas

Twenty lines
18 Which of the following is a poem by Robert Lowell?
"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"Medusa"

"Shiloh"

"Incident"
19 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Trochaic hexameter

Dactylic trimeter
20 Where was Trethewey born?
Charlottesville, Virginia

Gulfport, Mississippi

Newport, Rhode Island

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

Sally Hemings

Sarah Henfield

Susan Hartfield
22 What is the tone of the line "This is where / we split up. I'll head around to the back"?
Bitter

Joking

Critical

Angry
23 To what does the phrase "dark subtext" refer?
The speaker's father's marital problems

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

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 makes fun of a tour guide's remark

When the speaker realizes her father feels some connection to Jefferson

When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird

When the speaker visits Monticello
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson

The speaker

The speaker's father

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