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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

Henrician

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

Chaucer

Milton

Keats

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

His political writing

His plays

His poetry

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

Classical

Polished

Learned

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

Sonnet

Epitaph

Epigraph

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

Ben Jonson

A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson's wife

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

Himself

His daughter

God

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

Free verse

Rhyme royal

Sonnet

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

Iambic pentameter (five 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 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"?

It makes the father less to rue

Where, while that severed doth remain

With safety of her innocence

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"?

Early Christian poetry

Medieval poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

Classical Greek and Roman 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?

Depressed

Heartbroken

Distant

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

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

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?

First only

Third and fifth

First and third

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

At six months’ end she parted hence

It makes the father less to rue

Where, while that severed doth remain

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

Lamentation

Consolation

Praise

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

With safety of her innocence

In comfort of her mother’s tears

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?

Using ambiguous pronouns

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy

Giving all three the same name

Only referring to them as a group
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?

Mary's body into pieces

Mary's soul from her body

Jonson's bond with his wife

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

Personification

Metaphor

Alliteration

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 rot and return to the earth

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

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