On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Medieval

Victorian

Henrician

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

Chaucer

Shakespeare

Keats

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

His plays

His dramatic personal life

His political writing

His poetry
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?

Spontaneous

Classical

Learned

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

Epitaph

Limerick

Epigraph

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

Himself

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

Free verse

Couplets

Rhyme royal

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

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)

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"?

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence

Where, while that severed doth remain

It makes the father less to rue
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?

The middle

The end

The beginning

The whole poem is highly conventional
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

Early Christian poetry

Medieval poetry
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?

Similar ending

Similar formal structure

Similar theme

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

Heartbroken

Depressed

Furious

Distant
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 they had when they were young

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

First and third

Third and fifth

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

Where, while that severed doth remain

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

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"?

Lamentation

Consolation

Praise

He employs no elements of classical epitaph
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

In comfort of her mother’s tears
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?

Only referring to them as a group

Giving all three the same name

Using ambiguous pronouns

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 heart with grief

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's soul from her body
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?

Metaphor

Alliteration

Personification

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

Fleshly

Severed

Earth

Virgin-train
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

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

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