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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 color are Ariel's wings?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Purple.
(d) Blue.

2. What does Ariel say that his task and the task of his denizens is?
(a) To keep girls chaste.
(b) To protect young women.
(c) To look after the beautiful.
(d) To guard virtue.

3. Who does everyone look at in Canto II?
(a) A handsome red-head.
(b) Belinda.
(c) A pretty brunette.
(d) A spritely young woman.

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

5. How many times does the bell ring in Canto I (17)?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does a Belle reject in Canto I (10)?

2. What does the author sing about in Canto I (1)?

3. If Belinda has any faults of women, how can forget them?

4. In Canto I, how many spirits fly round (41)?

5. Who will watch over Belinda's dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the day starting in Canto I?

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

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

4. How is Belinda described in Canto II?

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

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

7. What are the tasks of the sylphs?

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

9. What is machinery?

10. What altar does the Baron build before dawn?

(see the answer keys)

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