Native Guard Quizzes

Native Guard Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2000

2005

2006

1996
2 What is the poem named after?
The Royal Guard

The National Guard

Guardian angels

The Louisiana Native Guard
3 What prize did the poem receive?
The Nobel

The Pulitzer

The National Book Award

The Poetry Foundation Award
4 Which battle is NOT referenced in the poem?
Port Hudson

Fort Pillow

Antietam

Gettysburg
5 What food is the primary source of sustenance at Fort Massachusetts?
Salted jerky

Hardtack

Pancakes

Buttermilk biscuits
6 Who wrote "but darling you are the sunlight / Volleying down blue air"?
E.E. Cummings

Robert Lowell

John Berryman

Walt Whitman
7 Who was one of the most famous sonnet writers?
William Shakespare

Billy Collins

T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson
8 What is a collection of sonnets referred to as?
A gathering

A selection

A crown

A school
9 What is the setting of the poem?
Fort Pillow

Pascagoula

A ship called the Northern Star

Fort Massachusetts
10 What is the form of the poem?
Limerick

A sequence of sonnets

Ballad

Haiku
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love poetry

Pastoral poetry

War poetry

Victorian poetry
12 When does the poem take place?
During the Revolutionary War

During the Civil War

During Vietnam

During election of 1864
13 What is the tone of the poem?
Bitter and dry

Upbeat and comic

Reflective and tragic

Cold and cerebral
14 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's escape from slavery

The speaker not being seen as an equal to white soldiers by his Union army superiors

The speaker's fights with Confederate prisoners

The speaker's fight on the battlefield against the Confederacy
15 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"wind in trees choked with vines."

"his story intersecting with my own."

"Yes: I was born a slave, at harvest time,"

"I'd not dared to travel. Here, now,"
16 Who is the speaker guarding?
Confederate prisoners of war

Other freed slaves

Louisiana civilians

Union prisoners of war
17 What was a notable tragedy of the battle at Pascagoula?
Casualties from friendly fire

A resounding Union loss

Soldiers left to die on the battlefield

Soldiers being fired upon as they surrendered
18 What does General Bankes do in the poem?
Lead a charge

Take Confederate prisoners

Leave Black soldiers unclaimed and unburied on a battlefield

Devise a plan of attack for Port Hudson
19 What does the speaker assist the Confederate prisoners in doing?
Writing letters

Playing card games

Cooking

Building a wall
20 Why does Trethewey choose to structure the poem as a series of journal entries?
To mimic the tone of diary

To show the passing of the seasons

To show the speaker's emotional journey from hope to disillusionment over time

To reference historical events on specific days
21 What does the speaker's unit have its name changed to?
Corps d'Afrique

Supply Services

The Florida Native Guard

The National Guard
22 What act does the speaker believe is essential to remembering events properly?
Painting

Telling stories aloud

Taking photographs

Writing
23 What was the name of the speaker's master?
Dumas

Leighton

Banks

Alexander
24 What image is the speaker haunted by?
Rats

The gravestones at Fort Massachusetts

The corpses of dead Black soldiers

A stormy ocean
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
Abraham Lincoln

The speaker

Frederick Douglass

John Brown

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