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