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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 I

English Civil Wars

The Dutch Wars

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

Love Poetry

Pastoral Lyric

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

The Cavaliers

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Transcendentalists
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?
Conservative

Liberal

Tory

Whig
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?
Tory

Whig

Royalists

Abolitionists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?
Whig

Liberal

Tory

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

Queen Elizabeth I

James II

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

Charles II

James III

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

Oliver Cromwell

James I

Charles I
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?
1800

1450

1681

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

"Cupid's Arrow"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

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

The False Count

Leaves of Grass

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

The Rover

The False Count

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love
15 In what meter is most of the poem composed?
Iambic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

dactylic hexameter

free verse
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Simile

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

Iambic tetrameter

iambic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter 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
19 Iambic tetrameter 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
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.
Wind

Water

Love

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

Damon

Cupid

The speaker
22 A golden dart is shot at a _______ lover.
False

Godly

True

Bad
23 A lead dart is shot at a _______ lover.
Good

True

Male

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

Religious strife

Feminine desire

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

Oroonoko

"The Rover"

The False Count

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