Song (“On Her Loving Two Equally”) Quizzes

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Quiz

1 During what period did Aphra Behn write?

Medieval Period

Modern Period

Romantic Period

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

World War I

World War II

English Civil Wars

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

Epic

Love Poetry

Romantic Lyric

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

The Transcendentalists

The Cavaliers

The Whigs

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

Tory

Whig

Conservative

Liberal
6 Presbyterians were aligned with which political party?

Tory

Royalists

Abolitionists

Whig
7 Catholics were aligned with which political party?

Whig

Liberal

Tory

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

Charles I

James II

Queen Elizabeth I

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

Oliver Cromwell

Charles II

James III

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

James I

James II

Charles I

Oliver Cromwell
11 In what year was "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally published?

1450

1681

1684

1800
12 What was the original title of "On Her Loving Two Equally?"

"Cupid's Arrow"

"A Lover Split"

"How strongly does my passion flow"

Song 1
13 In what volume of poetry was "On Her Loving Two Equally Published?"

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

The False Count

Oroonoko

Leaves of Grass
14 In what play did "On Her Loving Two Equally" originally appear?

The False Count

The Rover

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

Oroonoko
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?

Alliteration

Metaphor

Simile

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

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

iambic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter
18 Iambic pentameter has _______________.

5 feet; only unstressed syllables

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

4 feet; each foot is two stressed syllables

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

Love

Fire

Wind

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.

Bad

True

False

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

Male

False

Good

True
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 __________.

Oroonoko

The False Count

"On Her Loving Two Equally"

"The Rover"

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