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1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?
Romantic Period

Medieval Period

Restoration Period

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

World War II

The Dutch Wars

English Civil Wars
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?
Love Poetry

Romantic Lyric

Pastoral Lyric

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

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Transcendentalists

The Whigs
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?
Liberal

Conservative

Whig

Tory
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?
Tory

Whig

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?
Queen Elizabeth I

James II

James I

Charles 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?
Charles I

James II

James I

Oliver Cromwell
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?"
Song 1

"A Lover Split"

"Cupid's Arrow"

"How strongly does my passion flow"
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

Leaves of Grass

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

Oroonoko

The Rover

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

Simile

Alliteration

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

Iambic pentameter

iambic hexameter

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

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

5 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable
19 Iambic tetrameter has __________.
4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

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

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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.
Male

False

True

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

Feminine desire

Masculine desire

Religious strife
25 Behn's most famous work is likely __________.
"The Rover"

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

The False Count

Oroonoko

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