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1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?
Restoration Period

Medieval Period

Modern Period

Romantic Period
2 Aphra Behn was a British spy during which war?
World War II

English Civil Wars

The Dutch Wars

World War I
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?
Epic

Romantic Lyric

Love Poetry

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

The Transcendentalists

The Whigs

The Pre-Raphaelites
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?
Liberal

Tory

Conservative

Whig
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?
Whig

Tory

Royalists

Abolitionists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?
Liberal

Conservative

Whig

Tory
8 Who was the first British monarch to be executed by the people?
Charles I

James I

James II

Queen Elizabeth 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

Charles I

James II

James I
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?
1681

1684

1450

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

"How strongly does my passion flow"

"Cupid's Arrow"

Song 1
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"
The False Count

Leaves of Grass

Oroonoko

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?
The Rover

Oroonoko

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

The False Count
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

Metonymy

Simile

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

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

iambic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.
4 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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

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

Water

Fire

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

Love

Cupid

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

Bad

False

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 _________.
Feminine desire

Political allegiance

Masculine desire

Religious strife
25 Behn's most famous work is likely __________.
"On Her Loving Two Equally"

The False Count

Oroonoko

"The Rover"

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