Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Restoration Period

Medieval Period

Romantic Period

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

The Dutch Wars

English Civil Wars

World War I

World War II
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 Whigs

The Pre-Raphaelites

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

Whig

Conservative

Tory

Liberal
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Tory

Royalists

Whig

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

Queen Elizabeth I

James II

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

James III

Charles II

Oliver Cromwell

James I
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

1450

1684

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

"How strongly does my passion flow"

"Cupid's Arrow"

Song 1

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

Leaves of Grass

Oroonoko

The False Count

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

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

The False Count

The Rover

Oroonoko
15 In what meter is most of the poem composed?

dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

free verse

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

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

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

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables
19 Iambic tetrameter has __________.

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

5 feet; only unstressed syllables
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.

Wind

Fire

Love

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

Love

The speaker

Cupid

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

Godly

True

False

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

False

Male

True

Good
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 __________.

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

"The Rover"

Oroonoko

The False Count

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