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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. Who had a bag he used to hold the winds that is similar to the bag the goddess gives Umbriel?

2. When the Baron begins to take Belinda's ringlet, how many wings blow back her hair?

3. What is in the vial that Umbril breaks over Belinda?

4. Who in battle has not felt the rage that Belinda feels after the Baron cuts her hair?

5. What are the phantoms that rise in the Cave of Spleen compared to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the area around the palace described?

2. What is Belinda feeling after her ringlet is cut off?

3. What refreshments are served after the card game?

4. How does the Baron take a lock of Belinda's hair?

5. Who does Thalestris turn to to help Belinda?

6. How does the goddess respond to Umbriel?

7. What bodies can be seen on every side in the cave that have been changed to different forms by anger?

8. What does the narrator say about Belinda's victory at the card game?

9. What type of conversations often take place at Hampton?

10. Where do Belinda and her companions go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

There are many different types of poem. What type of poem is The Rape of the Lock? Why is it a mock-epic and not an epic?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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