Song (“Love Armed”) Quizzes

Song ("Love Armed") Quiz 1

1 What year was the poem published?
1676

1680

1612

1655
2 In which play did the poem originally appear?
Hamlet

Oroonoko

The Duchess of Malfi

Abdelazer
3 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Two

One

Three
4 What is the rhyme scheme?
ABBACDDCEFEFGG

ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG

ABABABABABABABAB

ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH
5 What is the meter of the poem?
Trochaic tetrameter

Anapestic dimeter

Iambic tetramenter

Iambic pentameter
6 Which god is described in the poem?
Cupid

Zeus

Mars

Venus
7 Which best describes the description of love in the poem?
Patient

Kind

Cruel

Indifferent
8 From what affliction does the speaker of the poem suffer?
Writer's block

Terminal illness

Grief

Unrequited love
9 To whom is the poem addressed?
Cupid

The beloved

Venus

The speaker herself
10 What do the bleeding hearts symbolize?
Kings and queens

Wounded lovers

Victims of war

Plants
11 The speaker describes Cupid as possessing what kind of power?
Inimitable

Tyrannic

Relentless

Despotic
12 From where, according to the speaker, did Cupid acquire the fire for his arrows?
The sun

The beloved's eyes

Her own heart

A magic well
13 Which of these is a convention of Petrarchan poetry?
Female speakers

Sixteen-line poems

Iambic tetrameter

Sighs and tears
14 Who, according to the speaker, is responsible for this monstrous version of Cupid?
The beloved alone

The rest of the world

Venus and Mars

Her and her beloved
15 Complete the line: "Love in Fantastic _____ sat" (1).
Tyranny

Power

Victory

Triumph
16 Who are the parents of Cupid?
Orpheus and Eurydice

Aphrodite and Hermes

Venus and Mars

Athena and Zeus
17 Complete the line: "Enough to undo the ____ World" (8).
Longing

Cruel

Silly

Amorous
18 How does the speaker describer her beloved's heart?
The arrow

The dart

The tyrant

The victor
19 What other genre of writing is Aphra Behn known for?
Political tracts

Novels

Pamphlets

Drama
20 With what era of English poetry is Behn associated?
Elizabethan

Jacobean

Carolinian

Restoration
21 What is Behn's best-known work?
Abdelazer

Macbeth

Love Armed

Oronooko
22 "Love Armed" is an example of what kind of poetry?
Petrarchan

Free verse

Modernist

Elegiac
23 Which of these best describes the tone of the poem?
Resigned

Pensive

Surprised

Hopeful
24 What is Cupid's Greek counterpart?
Hermes

Mars

Apollo

Eros
25 Cupid is traditionally portrayed as what?
A heart

A cruel tyrant

A child

A military leader

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