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

World War I

The Dutch Wars

English Civil Wars
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?

Romantic Lyric

Love Poetry

Pastoral Lyric

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

The Cavaliers

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Transcendentalists

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

Conservative

Liberal

Tory

Whig
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Tory

Royalists

Abolitionists

Whig
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Tory

Whig

Liberal

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

James I

Charles I

James II

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

Charles II

James III

James I

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

Oliver Cromwell

Charles I

James I

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

1450

1681

1800

1684
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"

"Cupid's Arrow"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

"A Lover Split"

Song 1
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?

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

The False Count

Oroonoko

The Rover
15 In what meter is most of the poem composed?

free verse

Iambic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

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

Simile

Metonymy

Metaphor

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

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

iambic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

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

5 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; only unstressed syllables

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

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

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.

Love

Wind

Fire

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

Cupid

Love

The speaker

Damon
22 A golden dart is shot at a _______ lover.

True

Bad

False

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

True

Male

Good

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

Masculine desire

Feminine desire

Religious strife

Political allegiance
25 Behn's most famous work is likely __________.

Oroonoko

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

"The Rover"

The False Count

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