On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Medieval

Henrician

Victorian

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

Chaucer

Keats

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

His poetry

His dramatic personal life

His political writing
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?
Polished

Learned

Spontaneous

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

Epitaph

Epigraph

Sonnet
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?
A bereaved family friend

God

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?
His wife

His daughter

God

Himself
8 What is the rhyme scheme of "On My First Daughter"?
Sonnet

Rhyme royal

Free verse

Couplets
9 What is the meter of "On My First Daughter"?
Iambic tetrameter (four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

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

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

Iambic pentameter (five 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"?
It makes the father less to rue

With safety of her innocence

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

Where, while that severed doth remain
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?
The beginning

The middle

The end

The whole poem is highly conventional
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?
Medieval poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

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 ending

Similar theme

Similar formal structure
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?
Distant

Heartbroken

Depressed

Furious
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?
Mary, who was born because they were young

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was young when she died
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?
First only

First and third

Third and fifth

Third only
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

It makes the father less to rue

At six months’ end she parted hence

Where, while that severed doth remain
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?
Praise

Lamentation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Consolation
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?
Using ambiguous pronouns

Only referring to them as a group

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Giving all three the same name
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?
Jonson's wife

Mary, Jonson's daughter

The virgin Mary

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?
Jonson's heart with grief

Mary's soul from her body

Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's body into pieces
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?
Apostrophe

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

Severed

Virgin-train

Fleshly
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?
It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will rot and return to the earth

It will remain unchanged within the earth

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