On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Elizabethan

Henrician

Medieval

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

Milton

Shakespeare

Chaucer
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

Learned

Polished

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

Limerick

Epitaph

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

A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's wife
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?
His wife

His daughter

Himself

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

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)
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 beginning

The end

The middle

The whole poem is highly conventional
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?
Classical Greek and Roman poetry

Medieval poetry

Early Christian poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?
Similar formal structure

Similar lack of strong grief

Similar theme

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 they had when they were young

Mary, who was born because 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 only

First and third

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"?
Consolation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Lamentation

Praise
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?
In comfort of her mother’s tears

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

With safety of her innocence

This grave partakes the fleshly birth
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?
Giving all three the same name

Only referring to them as a group

Using ambiguous pronouns

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy
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?
Metaphor

Personification

Apostrophe

Alliteration
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 be resurrected and united with her soul

It will rot and return to the earth

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will remain unchanged within the earth

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