On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Victorian

Henrician

Elizabethan

Medieval
2 Who is the best-known contemporary of Ben Jonson?

Shakespeare

Chaucer

Milton

Keats
3 What was Jonson best known for during his time?

His plays

His dramatic personal life

His political writing

His poetry
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?

Classical

Spontaneous

Learned

Polished
5 What is the genre of "On My First Daughter"?

Epigraph

Sonnet

Limerick

Epitaph
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?

Ben Jonson

God

A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson's wife
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?

His wife

Himself

God

His daughter
8 What is the rhyme scheme of "On My First Daughter"?

Rhyme royal

Couplets

Sonnet

Free verse
9 What is the meter of "On My First Daughter"?

Trochaic pentameter (five pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Iambic tetrameter (four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
10 Which of the following lines is out of step with the meter of "On My First Daughter"?

With safety of her innocence

Where, while that severed doth remain

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

It makes the father less to rue
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?

The middle

The end

The beginning

The whole poem is highly conventional
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

Early Christian poetry

Medieval poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?

Similar theme

Similar lack of strong grief

Similar ending

Similar formal structure
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?

Distant

Heartbroken

Depressed

Furious
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was born because they were young
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?

First only

Third only

Third and fifth

First and third
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?

It makes the father less to rue

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

Where, while that severed doth remain

At six months’ end she parted hence
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Consolation

Lamentation

Praise
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?

In comfort of her mother’s tears

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?

Only referring to them as a group

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Using ambiguous pronouns

Giving all three the same name
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?

Mary, Jonson's daughter

The virgin Mary

Jonson's wife

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?

Jonson's bond with his wife

Jonson's heart with grief

Mary's soul from her body

Mary's body into pieces
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?

Apostrophe

Personification

Metaphor

Alliteration
24 Which of the following words does NOT emphasize Mary's embodiment?

Earth

Severed

Fleshly

Virgin-train
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will rot and return to the earth

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