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

Keats

Milton

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

His plays

His poetry

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

Spontaneous

Classical

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

Sonnet

Epitaph

Limerick
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?
Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife

A bereaved family friend

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

God

Himself

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

Free verse

Rhyme royal

Couplets
9 What is the meter of "On My First Daughter"?
Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

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

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

Iambic pentameter (five 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 beginning

The whole poem is highly conventional

The end

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

Early Christian poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

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 ending

Similar theme
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 born because they were young

Mary, who was young when she died

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

First and third

First only

Third and fifth
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
At six months’ end she parted hence

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

It makes the father less to rue

Where, while that severed doth remain
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"?
Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence

In comfort of her mother’s tears

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

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Only referring to them as a group
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?
Mary's soul from her body

Jonson's heart with grief

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's bond with his wife
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?
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 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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