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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 card does Ariel sit on?

2. The cheeks of the handmaid named Affectation are compare to the cheeks of whom?

3. Where would Thalestris like to see grass grow more than to see Belinda lose her honor?

4. What does coffee make politicians?

5. What presses upon Belinda after the Baron cuts her hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Belinda think about a card game with two knights?

2. How does the Baron play the jack of diamonds, and how does Belinda respond?

3. What refreshments are served after the card game?

4. What handmaids does the queen have in the Cave of Spleen?

5. What is Umbriel's journey like to the Cave of Spleen, and what is the atmosphere in the cave?

6. How does Belinda do during the game at first, and how does the tide turn?

7. How does Belinda beat the Baron?

8. Where do Belinda and her companions go?

9. What happens around noon in Canto III?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a poem. What is the point of view in The Rape of the Lock? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and character? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Sylphs are spirits that inhabit the air. What is the role of sylphs in The Rape of the Lock?

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