Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quizzes

Enlightenment (Trethewey poem) Quiz

1 When was "Enlightenment" published?
2005

2015

2020

2012
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?
Monument

Thrall

Native Guard

Collected Works
4 What historical figure is the poem about?
Alexander Hamilton

George Washington

John Adams

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

Sestets

Ocrtaves

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

Mount Vernon

Monticello

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

A bird

A song

A portrait
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 her mother

Her relationship with her grandfather

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

"In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs"

"his forehead white with illumination —"

"across the centuries, his lips fixed as if"
11 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Thomas Jefferson

Natasha Trethewey

Sally Hemings

A tour guide at Monticello
12 Where is the poem primarily set?
At Monticello

In Colonial Williamsburg

At Harper's Ferry

In Washington D.C.
13 Who wrote "Mayor Harold Washington"?
James Baldwin

Maya Angelou

Langston Hughes

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

A beautiful ruin

An abandoned city

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 dislike of Virginia

The speaker's bad relationship with her father

The speaker not wanting to visit Monticello
16 What image does the poem begin with?
A portrait of Jefferson

Jefferson's horse stable

Monticello

The speaker's father
17 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Seventeen lines

Twenty lines

Eighteen stanzas
18 Which of the following is a poem by Robert Lowell?
"Medusa"

"Shiloh"

"Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts"

"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

Gulfport, Mississippi

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

Sarah Henfield

Sally Hess

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

Angry

Critical

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

Jefferson's mishandling of the Revolutionary War

The poor quality of his portrait

The contradictions between Jefferson's beliefs and his personal life
24 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker visits Monticello

When the speaker makes fun of a tour guide's remark

When the speaker sees a rare Virginia bird

When the speaker realizes her father feels some connection to Jefferson
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker's father

Sally Hemings

The speaker

Thomas Jefferson

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