On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?

Elizabethan

Victorian

Henrician

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

Keats

Milton

Chaucer

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

His dramatic personal life

His political writing

His poetry

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

Spontaneous

Learned

Polished

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

Sonnet

Epitaph

Limerick

Epigraph
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"?

Free verse

Couplets

Rhyme royal

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

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

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

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

Trochaic pentameter (five 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

It makes the father less to rue

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 middle

The beginning

The whole poem is highly conventional

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

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance

Medieval poetry

Early Christian poetry

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

Furious

Heartbroken

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

Mary, who was born because they were young

Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who was young when she died

Mary, who brought their youth to an end
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?

Third and fifth

First and third

First only

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

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

Where, while that severed doth remain

It makes the father less to rue

At six months’ end she parted hence
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"?

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?

Giving all three the same name

Using ambiguous pronouns

Only referring to them as a group

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?

Jonson's wife

The virgin Mary

Mary, Jonson's daughter

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?

Mary's body into pieces

Jonson's heart with grief

Mary's soul from her body

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

Metaphor

Alliteration

Personification

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

Fleshly

Earth

Virgin-train

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

It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will rot and return to the earth

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

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