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?
Milton

Shakespeare

Chaucer

Keats
3 What was Jonson best known for during his time?
His dramatic personal life

His poetry

His plays

His political writing
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?
Polished

Classical

Learned

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

Sonnet

Limerick

Epitaph
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?
A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson

God

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

God

His daughter

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

Rhyme royal

Couplets

Free verse
9 What is the meter of "On My First Daughter"?
Trochaic pentameter (five pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

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

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed 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"?
Where, while that severed doth remain

It makes the father less to rue

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?
The middle

The beginning

The end

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

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

Medieval poetry

Early Christian poetry
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?
Similar lack of strong grief

Similar formal structure

Similar ending

Similar theme
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?
Depressed

Distant

Heartbroken

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 and third

First only

Third and fifth

Third only
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
Where, while that severed doth remain

At six months’ end she parted hence

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

It makes the father less to rue
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?
Lamentation

Consolation

Praise

He employs no elements of classical epitaph
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?
This grave partakes the fleshly birth

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

In comfort of her mother’s tears
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?
Using ambiguous pronouns

Only referring to them as a group

Giving all three the same name

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?
Mary, Jonson's daughter

Jonson's wife

The virgin Mary

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?
Mary's body into pieces

Mary's soul from her body

Jonson's heart with grief

Jonson's bond with his wife
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?
Alliteration

Personification

Metaphor

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

Fleshly

Severed

Virgin-train
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?
It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will rot and return to the earth

It will remain unchanged within the earth

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