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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When people come to enjoy the pleasures of Court, how might they spend instructive hours (11)?
(a) Talking.
(b) Having tea.
(c) Walking in the gardens.
(d) Playing card games.

2. What are the phantoms that rise in the Cave of Spleen compared to?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Demons.
(c) Dreams of an old crone.
(d) Dreams of a hermit.

3. When the Baron begins to take Belinda's ringlet, how many wings blow back her hair?
(a) 800.
(b) 600.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 500.

4. On how many tricks does Belinda's fate in the card game stand (94)?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. What does Belinda wish she had done instead of going to Hampton Court?
(a) Stayed home and said her prayers.
(b) Stayed home and read a book.
(c) Stayed home and walked in the gardens.
(d) Stayed home and worked her embroiderly.

6. After Belinda wins the game, what do she and her companions drink?
(a) Tea.
(b) Red wine.
(c) White wine.
(d) Coffee.

7. In whose arms is Belinda sunk into when Umbriel returns?
(a) Idomeneus.
(b) Thalestris.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Nestor.

8. How many times happier would Belinda have been if she had not gone to Hampton Court that day?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

9. After the Baron cuts her hair, what does she feel in her heart?
(a) Troubled fancies.
(b) Secret passions.
(c) Quiet sensibilities.
(d) Quiet avocations.

10. Like whose tripod does a cooking pot walk?
(a) Homer's.
(b) Plato's.
(c) Aristotle's.
(d) Socrates'.

11. Where does the Baron say Belinda's lock will always be?
(a) Worn in a locket.
(b) Worn round his arm.
(c) Worn on his hand.
(d) Kept in a snuffbox.

12. What is in the vial that Umbril breaks over Belinda?
(a) Laments.
(b) Sorrows.
(c) Desolations.
(d) Miseries.

13. What do the queens on the Ombre cards hold?
(a) Tea cups.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Lap dogs.
(d) Flowers.

14. What is the only breeze that blows near the Cave of Spleen?
(a) West.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) East.

15. Who comes to Hampton to enjoy the pleasures of Court?
(a) Lords and ladies.
(b) Queen and her advisors.
(c) Heroes and nymphs.
(d) Queen and her ladies-in-waiting.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Canto III, with whom does Belinda want to play cards?

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

3. In Ombre, what card defeats the Jack?

4. From what country is the stand that is used to raise the silver lamp in Canto III?

5. What happens to the wretches who the judges quickly pass sentences upon?

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