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Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?
Restoration Period

Medieval Period

Modern Period

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

World War II

The Dutch Wars

World War I
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?
Epic

Pastoral Lyric

Love Poetry

Romantic Lyric
4 Which poetic ideology was Aphra Behn most associated with?
The Pre-Raphaelites

The Whigs

The Cavaliers

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

Conservative

Liberal

Whig
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?
Abolitionists

Tory

Whig

Royalists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?
Liberal

Tory

Whig

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

Charles I

James I

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

James III

Charles II

Oliver Cromwell
10 Which aristocrat did the Tories oppose ascending to the throne?
Oliver Cromwell

James I

Charles I

James II
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?
1800

1684

1681

1450
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"
"How strongly does my passion flow"

"A Lover Split"

Song 1

"Cupid's Arrow"
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"
Leaves of Grass

Oroonoko

The False Count

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?
The False Count

The Rover

Oroonoko

Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Voyage to the Island of Love
15 In what meter is most of the poem composed?
free verse

Iambic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

dactylic hexameter
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?
Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

Metonymy
17 The last line of each stanza is written in _________.
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

iambic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter
18 Iambic pentameter 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
19 Iambic tetrameter has __________.
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

5 feet; only unstressed syllables
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.
Fire

Wind

Love

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

Damon

Cupid

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

Godly

Bad

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

True

Male

Good
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"

Oroonoko

The False Count

"The Rover"

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