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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. When have the nurse and the priest told Belinda about when elves dance?

2. How many French romances did the Baron burn?

3. To whom are secret truths revealed that are hidden from the educated?

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

5. What does Ariel say that the sylphs can give their charges in dreams?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Pope write about the cantos of the poem?

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

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

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

5. What does Belinda use as she prepares for the day?

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

7. Why does the Baron build an altar and a fire before the sun rises?

8. What is machinery?

9. What altar does the Baron build before dawn?

10. What are the Baron's thoughts when he sees Belinda and admires her hair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alexander Pope writes an introduction to The Rape of the Lock explaining why he wrote the poem. Why did Pope write The Rape of the Lock?

Essay Topic 2

Canto III begins with a pleasant sail to Hampton Court. How does Pope build the tension in this section of the poem to the climax where the Baron cuts Belinda’s ringlet?

Essay Topic 3

Belinda’s grief is compared to serious circumstances like kings being captured on the battlefield. How does Pope use hyperbole in the descriptions of Belinda’s grief?

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