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