Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Modern Period

Restoration Period

Romantic Period

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

World War I

World War II

The Dutch Wars

English Civil Wars
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?

Epic

Romantic Lyric

Love Poetry

Pastoral Lyric
4 Which poetic ideology was Aphra Behn most associated with?

The Cavaliers

The Transcendentalists

The Whigs

The Pre-Raphaelites
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?

Tory

Whig

Liberal

Conservative
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Whig

Tory

Abolitionists

Royalists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Whig

Tory

Liberal

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

James I

Charles I

James II

Queen Elizabeth 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?

Oliver Cromwell

James II

James I

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

1800

1684

1450

1681
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"

Song 1

"Cupid's Arrow"

"A Lover Split"

"How strongly does my passion flow"
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"

Oroonoko

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

Leaves of Grass

The False Count
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?

The Rover

The False Count

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

Oroonoko
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?

Metonymy

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

iambic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

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

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

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

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

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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

Love

Fire

Wind

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

Love

Damon

The speaker

Cupid
22 A golden dart is shot at a _______ lover.

Godly

False

Bad

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

True

False

Good

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

Political allegiance

Masculine desire

Feminine desire

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

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

"The Rover"

Oroonoko

The False Count

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