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1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Elizabethan

Medieval

Henrician

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

Shakespeare

Milton

Keats

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

His plays

His poetry

His political writing

His dramatic personal life
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?

Spontaneous

Learned

Classical

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

Epitaph

Limerick

Sonnet

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

Ben Jonson's wife

A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson

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

His daughter

God

His wife

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

Rhyme royal

Couplets

Free verse

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

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

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

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

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed 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

It makes the father less to rue

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

The end

The whole poem is highly conventional

The beginning

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

Early Christian poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

Medieval poetry
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 theme

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

Heartbroken

Furious

Depressed

Distant
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 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

Third and fifth

Third only

First only
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?

It makes the father less to rue

Where, while that severed doth remain

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

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

Consolation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Praise

Lamentation
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?

Giving all three the same name

Only referring to them as a group

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Using ambiguous pronouns
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?

The virgin Mary

Jonson's wife

Mary, Jonson's daughter

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 bond with his wife

Jonson's heart with grief
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

Severed

Fleshly

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 remain unchanged within the earth

It will rot and return to the earth

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

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