On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Elizabethan

Henrician

Medieval

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

Chaucer

Shakespeare

Keats
3 What was Jonson best known for during his time?
His plays

His dramatic personal life

His poetry

His political writing
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

Sonnet

Epigraph

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

A bereaved family friend

God

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

His wife

His daughter

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

Rhyme royal

Free verse

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

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

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

Trochaic pentameter (five 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"?
Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

It makes the father less to rue

With safety of her innocence

Where, while that severed doth remain
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"?
Early Christian poetry

Medieval poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

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

Similar ending

Similar theme

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

Heartbroken

Furious

Depressed
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?
Mary, who was born because they were young

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who was young when she died
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?
First only

Third only

Third and fifth

First and third
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

Where, while that severed doth remain

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"?
He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Consolation

Lamentation

Praise
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?
This grave partakes the fleshly birth

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence

In comfort of her mother’s tears
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

Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's soul from her body

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

Alliteration

Apostrophe

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

Severed

Earth

Fleshly
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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