Aphra Behn - Quiz
Aphra Behn
  • 1. Who edited the 2019 book 'Classic Plays by Women' which features 'The Rover'?
A) Susan Croft
B) Maureen Duffy
C) Angeline Goreau
D) Janet Todd
  • 2. Which biographer wrote 'The Passionate Shepherdess' in 1977?
A) Vita Sackville-West
B) Maureen Duffy
C) Heidi Hutner
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 3. What significant discovery was first made in Maureen Duffy's 1977 biography?
A) Behn's hidden grave
B) Behn's secret spy journals
C) Behn's first marriage certificate
D) Behn's birth name
  • 4. Who wrote 'Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn' in 1980?
A) Angeline Goreau
B) Derek Hughes
C) Karen Britland
D) Lisa Hilton
  • 5. In what year was Angeline Goreau's social biography of Aphra Behn published?
A) 1977
B) 1980
C) 1983
D) 1997
  • 6. What is the title of the 2001 book about Behn's dramatic works written by Derek Hughes?
A) The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
B) The Theatre of Aphra Behn
C) Classic Plays by Women
D) Rereading Aphra Behn
  • 7. Who wrote the comprehensively researched biography titled 'The Secret Life of Aphra Behn'?
A) Janet Todd
B) Angeline Goreau
C) Maureen Duffy
D) Germaine Greer
  • 8. Which publisher released the revised edition of Janet Todd's 'Aphra Behn: A Secret Life' in 2017?
A) Palgrave Macmillan
B) Fentum Press
C) Dial Press
D) Rutgers University Press
  • 9. Who wrote the 1927 biography 'Aphra Behn – The Incomparable Astrea'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Lisa Hilton
C) Heidi Hutner
D) Vita Sackville-West
  • 10. Whose view of Behn was described as more sympathetic and laudatory than Virginia Woolf's?
A) Angeline Goreau's
B) Janet Todd's
C) Maureen Duffy's
D) Vita Sackville-West's
  • 11. Who wrote 'A Room of One's Own' in 1929?
A) Germaine Greer
B) Vita Sackville-West
C) Patricia Marsh
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 12. What served as a starting point for the feminist rediscovery of Behn's role?
A) Vita Sackville-West's book
B) A section in Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'
C) Maureen Duffy's biography
D) Angeline Goreau's essay
  • 13. Who authored the work titled 'What Is Triumph in Love? with a consideration of Aphra Behn'?
A) Karen Britland
B) Derek Hughes
C) Nancy Huntting
D) John Hutchinson
  • 14. Which author wrote 'Slip-Shod Sibyls', featuring two chapters dealing with Behn as a poet?
A) Janet Todd
B) Germaine Greer
C) Susan Croft
D) Heidi Hutner
  • 15. Who edited 'Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism' in 1993?
A) Dale Spender
B) Derek Hughes
C) Susan Croft
D) Heidi Hutner
  • 16. Who wrote 'Men of Kent and Kentishmen' which includes a piece on Afra Behn?
A) Karen Britland
B) Lisa Hilton
C) Patricia Marsh
D) John Hutchinson
  • 17. Who published the 2021 journal article 'Aphra Behn's First Marriage?'?
A) Angeline Goreau
B) Heidi Hutner
C) Karen Britland
D) Derek Hughes
  • 18. What is the title of Lisa Hilton's 352-page book published in 2024?
A) The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
B) Three Faces
C) Slip-Shod Sibyls
D) The Scandal of the Century
  • 19. Who wrote the 2024 novel 'Three Faces', based on the known facts of Behn's life?
A) Lisa Hilton
B) Maureen Duffy
C) Vita Sackville-West
D) Patricia Marsh
  • 20. In what year was Susan Croft's 'Classic Plays by Women' published?
A) 2019
B) 1997
C) 2021
D) 2001
  • 21. Which play is featured in Susan Croft's edited collection?
A) Three Faces
B) The Rover
C) The Passionate Shepherdess
D) Slip-Shod Sibyls
  • 22. Who edited the volume 'Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers' containing an essay by Angeline Goreau?
A) Dale Spender
B) Janet Todd
C) Heidi Hutner
D) Susan Croft
  • 23. What is the title of Angeline Goreau's essay in Dale Spender's book?
A) What Is Triumph in Love?
B) The Incomparable Astrea
C) Aphra Behn's First Marriage?
D) Aphra Behn: A scandal to modesty (c. 1640–1689)
  • 24. Which university press published Heidi Hutner's 1993 book?
A) University of Virginia Press
B) Rutgers University Press
C) Dial Press
D) Palgrave Macmillan
  • 25. Which publishing house released Angeline Goreau's 1980 book?
A) Dial Press
B) Aurora Metro Books
C) Fentum Press
D) Gerald Howe
  • 26. Who published Vita Sackville-West's 1927 book on Aphra Behn?
A) Gerald Howe
B) Dial Press
C) Cross & Jackman
D) Michael Joseph
  • 27. What publisher released Lisa Hilton's 2024 book?
A) Palgrave Macmillan
B) The Conrad Press
C) Michael Joseph
D) Aurora Metro Books
  • 28. What publisher released Patricia Marsh's novel 'Three Faces' in 2024?
A) The Conrad Press
B) Michael Joseph
C) Fentum Press
D) Gerald Howe
  • 29. In which year was Aphra Behn's play The Luckey Chance staged?
A) 1687
B) 1686
C) 1689
D) 1684
  • 30. What was the likely title of Behn's first prose work, published anonymously between 1684 and 1687?
A) Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
B) La Montre: or, the Lover's Watch
C) Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave
D) The History of the Nun
  • 31. Which contemporary scandal inspired Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister?
A) A financial fraud involving the royal treasury
B) The secret marriage of a king and a commoner
C) Lord Grey eloping with his sister-in-law Lady Henrietta Berkeley
D) The assassination of a prominent nobleman in Westminster
  • 32. How many editions did Love-Letters go through before 1800?
A) Around 50 editions
B) Exactly 5 editions
C) More than 16 editions
D) Only 2 editions
  • 33. Which of the following prose works was published under Behn's own name in 1688?
A) The History of the Nun
B) The Lucky Mistake
C) Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave
D) Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
  • 34. What is the story of Oroonoko primarily about?
A) A royal family fleeing from a political revolution
B) The enslaved Oroonoko and his love Imoinda
C) The secret adventures of a European explorer in Asia
D) A nun escaping from a convent in Spain
  • 35. In what year was the collection Ovid's Epistles Translated by Several Hands published?
A) 1684
B) 1680
C) 1688
D) 1696
  • 36. Who famously referred to Behn as 'blind Translatress Behn' in a misogynistic critique?
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Dryden
C) Thomas Brown
D) Matthew Prior
  • 37. Which French author's work did Behn translate into A Discovery of New Worlds?
A) La Rochefoucauld
B) Fontenelle
C) Brilhac
D) Tallement
  • 38. What was the subject of Abraham Cowley's Six Books of Plants, whose final book Behn translated in her final days?
A) Trees
B) Exotic flowers
C) Royal gardens
D) Medicinal herbs
  • 39. What quote is inscribed on Behn's tombstone?
A) Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality.
B) All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave.
C) She opened up public space for women writers.
D) The stage how loosely does Astrea tread.
E) A life dedicated to pleasure and poetry.
  • 40. Which new female dramatist acknowledged Behn as her most vital predecessor?
A) Delarivier Manley
B) Aphra Behn
C) Jane Austen
D) Mary Shelley
  • 41. Which bookseller published three posthumous collections of Behn's prose?
A) Jacob Tonson
B) Thomas Southerne
C) John Dryden
D) Samuel Briscoe
  • 42. How was Behn's literary work treated until the mid-20th century by mainstream critics?
A) She was praised exclusively for her classical translations.
B) Her works were required reading in all universities.
C) She was repeatedly dismissed as a morally depraved minor writer.
D) She was universally celebrated as the greatest dramatist of her era.
  • 43. Which 18th-century writer penned the lines: 'The stage how loosely does Astrea tread, Who fairly puts all characters to bed!'?
A) Richard Steele
B) Thomas Brown
C) Alexander Pope
D) John Duncombe
  • 44. Which 19th-century figure quoted Behn's poetry with respect in his Essay on Blake (1866)?
A) Julia Kavanagh
B) Ernest Bernbaum
C) Jane Williams
D) Algernon Swinburne
  • 45. Which of Behn's works was seriously considered by literary scholars during the long period her output was largely marginalized?
A) The Luckey Chance
B) The Emperor of the Moon
C) Oroonoko
D) La Montre: or, the Lover's Watch
  • 46. Who adapted Oroonoko for the stage in 1696?
A) Fontenelle
B) Abraham Cowley
C) Thomas Southerne
D) John Dryden
  • 47. Oroonoko is credited as a precursor to which philosopher's work?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on Inequality
B) Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan
C) Voltaire's Candide
D) John Locke's Two Treatises of Government
  • 48. In what year did Montague Summers publish a six-volume collection of Behn's work?
A) 1905
B) 1967
C) 1915
D) 1973
  • 49. When did feminist critics and writers begin actively re-evaluating Behn's literary works?
A) Since the early 1900s
B) Since the mid-20th century
C) Since the 1970s
D) Since the 1880s
  • 50. In what year was Behn's play The Rover republished during her modern rediscovery?
A) 1987
B) 1967
C) 1988
D) 1973
  • 51. Who wrote that Behn was 'a very gifted woman, compelled to write for bread'?
A) Felix Schelling
B) Frederick Link
C) George Woodcock
D) Edmund Gosse
  • 52. Who remarked that Behn was '...the George Sand of the Restoration'?
A) Vita Sackville-West
B) Montague Summers
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Edmund Gosse
  • 53. What are the primary themes of criticism surrounding Behn's poetry?
A) Agriculture, botany, and rural landscapes
B) War, politics, nationalism, and taxation
C) Gender, sexuality, femininity, pleasure, and love
D) Religion, divine right, and clerical corruption
  • 54. Which critics contend that 'The Disappointment' playfully and wittily questions conventional gender roles?
A) Lisa Zeitz and Peter Thoms
B) Maureen Duffy and Angeline Goreau
C) Jane Spencer and Dale Spender
D) Elaine Hobby and Janet Todd
  • 55. According to Virginia Woolf, what did Behn prove that allowed writing to gain practical importance?
A) That classical translations could match original texts
B) That money could be made by writing
C) That poetry could overthrow corrupt governments
D) That women could hold high political office
  • 56. In what city was Aphra Behn born?
A) London
B) Canterbury
C) Westminster
D) Surinam
  • 57. When was a statue to Aphra Behn unveiled?
A) 16 April 1989
B) 25 February 2025
C) 1 January 2000
D) September 2023
  • 58. Which English monarch employed Aphra Behn as a spy in Antwerp?
A) William III
B) Charles II
C) James II
D) Cromwell
  • 59. What pastoral pseudonym did Aphra Behn use?
A) Ariadne
B) Astrea
C) Orinda
D) Corinna
  • 60. According to one version of her life, what was the profession of her father John Amis?
A) Clergyman
B) Lawyer
C) Merchant
D) Barber
  • 61. Which American colony did Behn likely visit, providing the background for Oroonoko?
A) Suriname
B) Barbados
C) Virginia
D) Jamaica
  • 62. With whom did Behn correspond in the 1660s that corroborated her stories of her time in the American colony?
A) John Wilmot
B) William Scot
C) Thomas Killigrew
D) Thomas Colepeper
  • 63. Which political party did Aphra Behn support?
A) Tory
B) Whig
C) Puritan
D) Parliamentarian
  • 64. During which war was Behn recruited as a political spy in Antwerp?
A) The Exclusion Crisis
B) The First Anglo-Dutch War
C) The Second Anglo-Dutch War
D) The English Civil War
  • 65. What was Aphra Behn's code name while working as a spy?
A) Agent 99
B) Agent 32
C) Agent 160
D) Agent 007
  • 66. What was the name of Behn's first romantic tragicomedy staged in September 1670?
A) The Forc'd Marriage
B) The Dutch Lover
C) The Amorous Prince
D) The Rover
  • 67. In what year was the play The Forc'd Marriage performed?
A) 1670
B) 1676
C) 1671
D) 1673
  • 68. When was The Forc'd Marriage published?
A) 1673
B) 1676
C) 1671
D) 1670
  • 69. When was the play The Dutch Lover published?
A) 1671
B) 1673
C) 1670
D) 1676
  • 70. In what year was Abdelazer performed?
A) 1673
B) 1677
C) 1670
D) 1676
  • 71. When was Abdelazer published?
A) 1677
B) 1673
C) 1670
D) 1676
  • 72. Which play is noted as an adaptation with disputed attribution from 1677?
A) The Debauchee
B) The Rover
C) The Town-Fopp
D) Sir Patient Fancy
  • 73. Which 1677 work is an attribution-disputed counter-bride play?
A) The Counterfeit Bridegroom
B) The Town-Fopp
C) The Amorous Prince
D) The Debauchee
  • 74. When was Sir Patient Fancy published or performed?
A) 1682
B) 1678
C) 1680
D) 1676
  • 75. In what year was The Feign'd Curtizans released?
A) 1683
B) 1681
C) 1679
D) 1677
  • 76. When was The Young King published?
A) 1680
B) 1683
C) 1681
D) 1679
  • 77. Which 1680 work is an adaptation with disputed attribution?
A) The Revenge
B) The Roundheads
C) The False Count
D) The Rover
  • 78. When was The Second Part of the Rover published?
A) 1681
B) 1683
C) 1680
D) 1682
  • 79. When was The False Count published?
A) 1682
B) 1683
C) 1680
D) 1681
  • 80. What is the title of the lost play by Aphra Behn from 1682?
A) The Lucky Mistake
B) The Unfortunate Bride
C) The City-Heiress
D) Like Father, Like Son
  • 81. When was The Luckey Chance published?
A) 1687
B) 1686
C) 1688
D) 1684
  • 82. When was The Widdow Ranter published?
A) 1696
B) 1690
C) 1688
D) 1689
  • 83. What is the alternative title or subtitle of The Younger Brother?
A) the Fair Vow-Breaker
B) the Amorous Jilt
C) the Force of Generous Love
D) the Lover in Fashion
  • 84. In what year was The Younger Brother published?
A) 1688
B) 1689
C) 1696
D) 1690
  • 85. In what year was the poetry collection Poems upon Several Occasions released?
A) 1684
B) 1689
C) 1685
D) 1688
  • 86. When was Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems by Several Hands published?
A) 1689
B) 1684
C) 1685
D) 1688
  • 87. In what year was A Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands published?
A) 1689
B) 1685
C) 1688
D) 1684
  • 88. To which queen is Behn's 1689 congratulatory poem addressed?
A) Queen Elizabeth
B) Queen Anne
C) Queen Victoria
D) Queen Mary
  • 89. Over which years was Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister published?
A) 1680–1683
B) 1688–1690
C) 1684–1687
D) 1685–1689
  • 90. How many parts was Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister published in?
A) three parts
B) five parts
C) four parts
D) two parts
  • 91. What is the alternative title of The History of the Nun?
A) the Lover in Fashion
B) the Force of Generous Love
C) the Amorous Jilt
D) the Fair Vow-Breaker
  • 92. Which posthumously published prose work features 'The Court of the King of...'
A) Persia
B) Bantam
C) Java
D) Atlantis
  • 93. Which of these prose works is listed as posthumously published and attribution-disputed?
A) The Unfortunate Bride
B) La Montre
C) The Lucky Mistake
D) Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
  • 94. Which mistake is featured as a posthumously published prose work title alongside The Lucky Mistake?
A) The Secret Mistake
B) The Unhappy Mistake
C) The Hidden Mistake
D) The False Mistake
  • 95. What is the final posthumously published prose work listed in the text?
A) The Unfortunate Bride
B) The Court of the King of Bantam
C) The Adventure of the Black Lady
D) The Wandring Beauty
  • 96. Whose epistles included Behn's translation 'A Paraphrase on Oenone to Paris' in 1680?
A) Juvenal
B) Ovid
C) Horace
D) Virgil
  • 97. Who wrote the original French work translated as A Voyage to the Island of Love?
A) La Rochefoucauld
B) Paul Tallement
C) Fontenelle
D) Bonnecorse
  • 98. Who wrote the original text for Behn's translation Reflections on Morality, or, Seneca Unmasqued?
A) Paul Tallement
B) Fontenelle
C) La Rochefoucauld
D) Abraham Cowley
  • 99. Which edition year of La Rochefoucauld's maxims did Behn translate?
A) 1688 edition
B) 1680 edition
C) 1675 edition
D) 1668 edition
  • 100. What is the original French title of Fontenelle's work translated as A Discovery of New Worlds?
A) Histoire des Oracles
B) Agnes de Castro, Nouvelle Portugaise
C) Voyage de l'isle d'amour
D) Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
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