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