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On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

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1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Medieval

Elizabethan

Victorian

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

Keats

Shakespeare

Chaucer

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

His plays

His political writing

His poetry

His dramatic personal life
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?

Classical

Polished

Spontaneous

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

Epigraph

Sonnet

Limerick

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

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife

A bereaved family friend

God
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?

God

His daughter

Himself

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

Couplets

Sonnet

Rhyme royal

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

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

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)
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 end

The whole poem is highly conventional

The middle

The beginning
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 formal structure

Similar theme

Similar ending

Similar lack of strong grief
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?

Distant

Depressed

Heartbroken

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

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was born because they were young
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?

Third and fifth

Third only

First and third

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

Where, while that severed doth remain

It makes the father less to rue

At six months’ end she parted hence

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?

Praise

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Consolation

Lamentation
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence

In comfort of her mother’s tears
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?

Using ambiguous pronouns

Giving all three the same name

Only referring to them as a group

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?

Jonson's heart with grief

Mary's soul from her body

Mary's body into pieces

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

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

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

Earth

Virgin-train

Severed

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

It will remain unchanged within the earth

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

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