On my First Daughter Quizzes

On my First Daughter "On My First Daughter"

1 During which era did Ben Jonson write?
Henrician

Medieval

Elizabethan

Victorian
2 Who is the best-known contemporary of Ben Jonson?
Keats

Chaucer

Shakespeare

Milton
3 What was Jonson best known for during his time?
His dramatic personal life

His poetry

His plays

His political writing
4 Which of the following does NOT describe Jonson's style?
Learned

Spontaneous

Polished

Classical
5 What is the genre of "On My First Daughter"?
Sonnet

Limerick

Epitaph

Epigraph
6 Who is the speaker in "On My First Daughter"?
God

A bereaved family friend

Ben Jonson's wife

Ben Jonson
7 Who is the speaker trying to convince in "On My First Daughter"?
Himself

God

His wife

His daughter
8 What is the rhyme scheme of "On My First Daughter"?
Couplets

Free verse

Rhyme royal

Sonnet
9 What is the meter of "On My First Daughter"?
Trochaic pentameter (five pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Iambic tetrameter (four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
10 Which of the following lines is out of step with the meter of "On My First Daughter"?
Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due

Where, while that severed doth remain

With safety of her innocence

It makes the father less to rue
11 Which portion of the poem is the most conventional?
The end

The beginning

The middle

The whole poem is highly conventional
12 Which era of poetry most strongly influenced "On My First Daughter"?
Medieval poetry

Early Christian poetry

Classical Greek and Roman poetry

The poetry of the Italian Renaissance
13 What is the most striking similarity between Jonson's poem and Martial's poem to Erotion?
Similar lack of strong grief

Similar ending

Similar formal structure

Similar theme
14 What is Jonson's tone at the beginning of the poem?
Furious

Heartbroken

Depressed

Distant
15 What does Jonson mean by "Mary, the daughter of their youth"?
Mary, who they had when they were young

Mary, who brought their youth to an end

Mary, who was born because they were young

Mary, who was young when she died
16 The fourth line ends "less to rue." To which lines of the poem does this phrase sound similar?
First and third

First only

Third and fifth

Third only
17 Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
At six months’ end she parted hence

Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears

It makes the father less to rue

Where, while that severed doth remain
18 Which element of classical epitaph does Jonson most emphasize in "On My First Daughter"?
Praise

Lamentation

He employs no elements of classical epitaph

Consolation
19 Which of the following is an example of comfort from finality in "On My First Daughter"?
With safety of her innocence

In comfort of her mother’s tears

This grave partakes the fleshly birth

Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due
20 How does Jonson blur the lines between his daughter, her mother, and the Virgin Mary?
Giving all three the same name

Using ambiguous pronouns

Only referring to them as a group

Suggesting that his daughter was just as holy
21 Who is "heaven's queen" in line 7?
Jonson's wife

Mary, Jonson's daughter

The virgin Mary

None of the above
22 What has been "severed" in line 10?
Jonson's heart with grief

Mary's soul from her body

Jonson's bond with his wife

Mary's body into pieces
23 Which of the following literary devices does Jonson NOT employ in the final three lines?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Apostrophe

Personification
24 Which of the following words does NOT emphasize Mary's embodiment?
Fleshly

Virgin-train

Severed

Earth
25 What does Jonson believe will eventually happen to Mary's body?
It will be resurrected and united with her soul

It will remain unchanged within the earth

It will come back to life and rejoin the family

It will rot and return to the earth

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