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1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?
Restoration Period

Modern Period

Romantic Period

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

The Dutch Wars

World War I

World War II
3 "On Her Loving Two Equally" plays with which poetic genre?
Romantic Lyric

Love Poetry

Pastoral Lyric

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

The Transcendentalists

The Cavaliers

The Whigs
5 Aphra Behn was associated with which political party?
Conservative

Whig

Tory

Liberal
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?
Whig

Tory

Abolitionists

Royalists
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?
Tory

Conservative

Whig

Liberal
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?
Charles II

James III

Oliver Cromwell

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

Charles I

James 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"

"Cupid's Arrow"

Song 1

"A Lover Split"
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 False Count

Oroonoko

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

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

free verse

Iambic tetrameter

iambic pentameter
16 "Fever in the blood" is an occurrence of which literary device?
Alliteration

Simile

Metaphor

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

iambic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.
5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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

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

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables
19 Iambic tetrameter 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
20 Eros is the Greek god of _______.
Wind

Love

Water

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

The speaker

Damon

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

False

Godly

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

Religious strife

Masculine desire

Feminine desire
25 Behn's most famous work is likely __________.
"The Rover"

Oroonoko

The False Count

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