On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Medieval

Henrician

Victorian

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

Shakespeare

Keats

Chaucer

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

His poetry

His plays

His political writing

His dramatic personal life
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

Limerick

Sonnet

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 daughter

Himself

God

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

Couplets

Free verse

Sonnet

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

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

Trochaic pentameter (five 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"?

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

It makes the father less to rue

Where, while that severed doth remain

With safety of her innocence
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?

The whole poem is highly conventional

The beginning

The middle

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

Early Christian poetry

Medieval poetry

Classical Greek and Roman 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 theme

Similar formal structure

Similar ending

Similar lack of strong grief
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?

Depressed

Furious

Heartbroken

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

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was born because they were young

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who brought their youth to an end
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?

Third and fifth

First and third

First only

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

At six months’ end she parted hence

Where, while that severed doth remain

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"?

Consolation

Lamentation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

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

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence

This grave partakes the fleshly birth
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?

Using ambiguous pronouns

Giving all three the same name

Only referring to them as a group

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?

Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's soul from her body

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's heart with grief
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?

Personification

Metaphor

Apostrophe

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

Fleshly

Severed

Virgin-train

Earth
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will rot and return to the earth

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will remain unchanged within the earth

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