On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Medieval

Elizabethan

Henrician

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

Milton

Shakespeare

Keats

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

His plays

His political writing

His dramatic personal life

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

Polished

Classical

Learned

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

Limerick

Epitaph

Sonnet

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

Ben Jonson's wife

A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson

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

His daughter

His wife

Himself

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

Sonnet

Rhyme royal

Couplets

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)

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"?

Where, while that severed doth remain

It makes the father less to rue

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?

The end

The middle

The whole poem is highly conventional

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 theme

Similar formal structure

Similar lack of strong grief

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

Distant

Heartbroken

Furious

Depressed
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?

Third only

Third and fifth

First and third

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

Where, while that severed doth remain

At six months’ end she parted hence

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

It makes the father less to rue
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?

Consolation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Praise

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

With safety of her innocence

In comfort of her mother’s tears

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due
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 heart with grief

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's soul from her body
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?

Personification

Alliteration

Apostrophe

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

Virgin-train

Fleshly

Severed

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

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

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

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