Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Restoration Period

Modern Period

Medieval Period

Romantic Period
2 Aphra Behn was a British spy during which war?

English Civil Wars

World War I

World War II

The Dutch Wars
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?

Romantic Lyric

Pastoral Lyric

Epic

Love Poetry
4 Which poetic ideology was Aphra Behn most associated with?

The Cavaliers

The Whigs

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Transcendentalists
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?

Whig

Liberal

Tory

Conservative
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Royalists

Tory

Abolitionists

Whig
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Liberal

Conservative

Tory

Whig
8 Who was the first British monarch to be executed by the people?

James II

James I

Queen Elizabeth I

Charles I
9 Who was the military leader during the period known as the Interregnum?

Charles II

Oliver Cromwell

James I

James III
10 Which aristocrat did the Tories oppose ascending to the throne?

James II

Charles I

Oliver Cromwell

James I
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?

1684

1800

1681

1450
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

Song 1

"Cupid's Arrow"

"A Lover Split"
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"

The False Count

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love

Leaves of Grass

Oroonoko
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?

The False Count

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love

Oroonoko

The Rover
15 In what meter is most of the poem composed?

iambic pentameter

free verse

dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?

Alliteration

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor
17 The last line of each stanza is written in _________.

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

iambic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

5 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

4 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable
19 Iambic tetrameter has __________.

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

4 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable

5 feet; each foot has one stressed and one unstressed syllable
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.

Fire

Love

Wind

Water
21 The poem's antagonist can best be identified as ______

Damon

Love

Cupid

The speaker
22 A golden dart is shot at a _______ lover.

Godly

False

True

Bad
23 A lead dart is shot at a _______ lover.

Good

True

Male

False
24 One interpretation of the poem could be that it is about _________.

Feminine desire

Political allegiance

Masculine desire

Religious strife
25 Behn's most famous work is likely __________.

The False Count

"The Rover"

Oroonoko

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