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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Gnomes or Daemons of Earth delight in?

2. In what way does Belinda in the poem resemble Mrs. Fermor?

3. In Canto I, who do virgins find it difficult withstand when they speak?

4. What is the sylph Zephyretta to look after that belongs to Belinda?

5. In Canto I, through what color curtains does the sun shine (13)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Baron's prayer answered before his fire?

2. What is machinery?

3. What altar does the Baron build before dawn?

4. How is Belinda compared to the sun when she gets on a boat with her friends?

5. Where does Ariel sit when he starts the meeting of the sylphs, and how is he described?

6. How does the boat glide on the river?

7. What did Pope write about the Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits?

8. Why is Belinda still sleeping as the sun rises?

9. To whom did Pope dedicate The Rape of the Lock, and why did he write it?

10. How is the day starting in Canto I?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clarissa gives a speech criticizing women’s vanity and frivolity. Why are Belinda and Thalestris not interested in what Clarissa has to say? What does their response reveal about their frivolity and how they and other character are frivolous?

Essay Topic 2

The Rape of the Lock has a complicated structure. What structural elements does Pope use in the poem? How do those elements contribute to the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

The Baron is the protagonist in The Rape of the Lock. How does Pope reveal the Baron and his character? What is the Baron’s role in the poem?

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