Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Restoration Period

Medieval Period

Romantic Period

Modern Period
2 Aphra Behn was a British spy during which war?

World War II

English Civil Wars

World War I

The Dutch Wars
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?

Romantic Lyric

Pastoral Lyric

Love Poetry

Epic
4 Which poetic ideology was Aphra Behn most associated with?

The Transcendentalists

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Cavaliers

The Whigs
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?

Conservative

Whig

Tory

Liberal
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Royalists

Whig

Tory

Abolitionists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Liberal

Tory

Conservative

Whig
8 Who was the first British monarch to be executed by the people?

James II

Queen Elizabeth I

James I

Charles I
9 Who was the military leader during the period known as the Interregnum?

James III

Charles II

James I

Oliver Cromwell
10 Which aristocrat did the Tories oppose ascending to the throne?

Oliver Cromwell

James II

Charles I

James I
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?

1684

1681

1450

1800
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

"A Lover Split"

Song 1

"Cupid's Arrow"
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"

Oroonoko

Leaves of Grass

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love

The False Count
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?

The False Count

Oroonoko

The Rover

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love
15 In what meter is most of the poem composed?

iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

free verse

dactylic hexameter
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?

Metonymy

Metaphor

Alliteration

Simile
17 The last line of each stanza is written in _________.

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

iambic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

5 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable

4 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

5 feet; only unstressed syllables
19 Iambic tetrameter has __________.

5 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

4 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.

Wind

Love

Water

Fire
21 The poem's antagonist can best be identified as ______

Love

Cupid

Damon

The speaker
22 A golden dart is shot at a _______ lover.

False

True

Bad

Godly
23 A lead dart is shot at a _______ lover.

Good

Male

False

True
24 One interpretation of the poem could be that it is about _________.

Masculine desire

Political allegiance

Religious strife

Feminine desire
25 Behn's most famous work is likely __________.

Oroonoko

"The Rover"

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

The False Count

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