Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Restoration Period

Modern Period

Romantic Period

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

World War I

World War II

English Civil Wars

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

Epic

Pastoral Lyric

Love Poetry

Romantic Lyric
4 Which poetic ideology was Aphra Behn most associated with?

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Whigs

The Transcendentalists

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

Liberal

Conservative

Tory

Whig
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Royalists

Tory

Abolitionists

Whig
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Liberal

Whig

Tory

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

Charles I

Queen Elizabeth I

James I

James II
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?

1684

1450

1681

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

"Cupid's Arrow"

"A Lover Split"

Song 1

"How strongly does my passion flow"
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"

The False Count

Oroonoko

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

Leaves of Grass
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?

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

Oroonoko

The Rover

The False Count
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?

Metaphor

Alliteration

Metonymy

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

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

iambic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

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

4 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable
19 Iambic tetrameter has __________.

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

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
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.

Fire

Wind

Love

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

The speaker

Damon

Cupid

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

Godly

True

Bad

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

Male

True

False

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

Masculine desire

Religious strife

Political allegiance

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

"The Rover"

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

The False Count

Oroonoko

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