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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Gnomes or Daemons of Earth delight in?
(a) Devilment.
(b) Mischief.
(c) Shenanigans.
(d) Tomfoolery.

2. What does the Baron use to light his fire when he burns old tokens from love affairs?
(a) Dry twigs.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Love letters.
(d) Scraps of cloth.

3. Where is the habitation of the Sylphs?
(a) Wind.
(b) Air.
(c) Water.
(d) Earth.

4. What does Ariel say that the sylphs can give their charges in dreams?
(a) Innovation.
(b) Impetus.
(c) Invention.
(d) Motivation.

5. As Belinda and the others ride in the boat on the river, what weighs down the sylph's heart?
(a) Misery.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Grief.
(d) Despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Canto I (3), to whom does the author offer his poem?

2. With how many hairs can beauty draw someone?

3. How are the sylphs described as they wait for what might befall Belinda?

4. How are the people described who are present when Belinda appears in Canto II?

5. How many garters did the Baron burn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aerial call his armies of the air?

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

3. What questions does the narrator ask a goddess in Canto I?

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

5. What are some tasks that creatures of the air have?

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

7. What is sung about at the begining of Canto I?

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

9. What does Belinda dream about in Canto I?

10. What are the tasks of the sylphs?

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