On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Henrician

Medieval

Victorian

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

Milton

Shakespeare

Keats
3 What was Jonson best known for during his time?
His poetry

His plays

His dramatic personal life

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

Classical

Learned

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

Sonnet

Epitaph

Limerick
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?
Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife

God

A bereaved family friend
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"?
Rhyme royal

Couplets

Sonnet

Free verse
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)

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

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed 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

It makes the father less to rue

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?
The beginning

The whole poem is highly conventional

The middle

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

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

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?
Furious

Depressed

Heartbroken

Distant
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?
Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was young when she died

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?
First and third

First only

Third and fifth

Third only
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
It makes the father less to rue

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

Where, while that severed doth remain

At six months’ end she parted hence
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?
He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Lamentation

Consolation

Praise
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?
Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

In comfort of her mother’s tears

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

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

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Giving all three the same name

Using ambiguous pronouns
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?
The virgin Mary

Mary, Jonson's daughter

Jonson's wife

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?
Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's soul from her body

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's heart with grief
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?
Alliteration

Apostrophe

Metaphor

Personification
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 be resurrected and united with her soul

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will rot and return to the earth

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