On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Victorian

Medieval

Henrician

Elizabethan
2 Who is the best-known contemporary of Ben Jonson?

Chaucer

Keats

Shakespeare

Milton
3 What was Jonson best known for during his time?

His dramatic personal life

His poetry

His political writing

His plays
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?

Learned

Classical

Spontaneous

Polished
5 What is the genre of "On My First Daughter"?

Limerick

Sonnet

Epitaph

Epigraph
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?

God

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife

A bereaved family friend
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?

God

Himself

His wife

His daughter
8 What is the rhyme scheme of "On My First Daughter"?

Free verse

Sonnet

Rhyme royal

Couplets
9 What is the meter of "On My First Daughter"?

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Trochaic pentameter (five pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Iambic tetrameter (four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
10 Which of the following lines is out of step with the meter of "On My First Daughter"?

Where, while that severed doth remain

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

It makes the father less to rue
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?

The end

The whole poem is highly conventional

The middle

The beginning
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

Medieval poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

Early Christian poetry
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?

Similar lack of strong grief

Similar theme

Similar formal structure

Similar ending
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?

Heartbroken

Distant

Depressed

Furious
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?

Mary, who was born because they were young

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who brought their youth to an end
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?

Third and fifth

First only

First and third

Third only
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

Where, while that severed doth remain

It makes the father less to rue

At six months’ end she parted hence
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?

Praise

Consolation

Lamentation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

In comfort of her mother’s tears

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?

Only referring to them as a group

Using ambiguous pronouns

Giving all three the same name

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?

Mary, Jonson's daughter

The virgin Mary

Jonson's wife

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?

Mary's soul from her body

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's heart with grief

Jonson's bond with his wife
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?

Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification

Apostrophe
24 Which of the following words does NOT emphasize Mary's embodiment?

Severed

Fleshly

Virgin-train

Earth
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will rot and return to the earth

It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

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