On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Victorian

Medieval

Henrician

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

Milton

Keats

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

His plays

His political writing

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

Spontaneous

Polished

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

Limerick

Sonnet

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

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife

God
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?
Himself

His daughter

His wife

God
8 What is the rhyme scheme of "On My First Daughter"?
Couplets

Free verse

Rhyme royal

Sonnet
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"?
It makes the father less to rue

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

Where, while that severed doth remain
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?
The end

The beginning

The whole poem is highly conventional

The middle
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?
Medieval poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

Early Christian poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?
Similar formal structure

Similar lack of strong grief

Similar ending

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

Depressed

Furious

Heartbroken
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?
Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who was born because they were young

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

Third and fifth

First only

First and third
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
Where, while that severed doth remain

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

At six months’ end she parted hence

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

Praise

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Lamentation
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?
Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Using ambiguous pronouns

Only referring to them as a group

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

Mary, Jonson's daughter

Jonson's wife

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?
Jonson's heart with grief

Jonson's bond with his wife

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?
Personification

Metaphor

Alliteration

Apostrophe
24 Which of the following words does NOT emphasize Mary's embodiment?
Virgin-train

Earth

Fleshly

Severed
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?
It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will rot and return to the earth

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