On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Elizabethan

Medieval

Henrician

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

Chaucer

Milton

Shakespeare
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

Polished

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

Epigraph

Epitaph

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

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife

A bereaved family friend
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"?
Free verse

Rhyme royal

Sonnet

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

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

Trochaic tetrameter (four 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 whole poem is highly conventional

The middle

The end

The beginning
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 lack of strong grief

Similar ending

Similar formal structure

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

Depressed

Heartbroken

Furious
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?
Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who was born because they were young

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?
First and third

Third and fifth

Third only

First only
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"?
He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Consolation

Praise

Lamentation
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?
Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Only referring to them as a group

Using ambiguous pronouns

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?
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?
Apostrophe

Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification
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 come back to life and rejoin the family

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will rot and return to the earth

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