Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Restoration Period

Romantic Period

Medieval 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?

Love Poetry

Romantic Lyric

Epic

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

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Transcendentalists

The Whigs

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

Tory

Whig

Liberal

Conservative
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Whig

Tory

Royalists

Abolitionists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Tory

Conservative

Whig

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

James II

Queen Elizabeth I

Charles I

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

James III

Oliver Cromwell

Charles II

James I
10 Which aristocrat did the Tories oppose ascending to the throne?

James I

Charles I

James II

Oliver Cromwell
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?

1681

1450

1800

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

Song 1

"Cupid's Arrow"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

"A Lover Split"
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"

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

The False Count

Oroonoko

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

The False Count

Oroonoko

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

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

iambic pentameter

dactylic hexameter

free verse

Iambic tetrameter
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

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

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

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; 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
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.

Water

Wind

Fire

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

Damon

The speaker

Cupid

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

True

False

Bad

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

True

Good

False

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

Religious strife

Political allegiance

Masculine desire

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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