Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Modern Period

Romantic Period

Medieval Period

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

English Civil Wars

World War I

World War II

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

Romantic Lyric

Epic

Pastoral Lyric

Love Poetry
4 Which poetic ideology was Aphra Behn most associated with?

The Transcendentalists

The Cavaliers

The Whigs

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

Conservative

Tory

Liberal

Whig
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Whig

Tory

Abolitionists

Royalists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Liberal

Whig

Conservative

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

James I

James II

Queen Elizabeth I

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

Charles II

James III

Oliver Cromwell

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

James I

James II

Charles I

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

1684

1800

1681

1450
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

"Cupid's Arrow"

"A Lover Split"

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

Oroonoko

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

The False Count

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

Oroonoko

The Rover

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?

free verse

Iambic tetrameter

dactylic hexameter

iambic pentameter
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

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

Iambic pentameter

iambic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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
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

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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

Fire

Wind

Love

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

The speaker

Love

Damon

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

Bad

Godly

False

True
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 _________.

Feminine desire

Political allegiance

Religious strife

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

Oroonoko

The False Count

"The Rover"

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

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