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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 do the Gnomes or Daemons of Earth delight in?

2. What do angels wear in Canto I?

3. How does Pope describe the French book where he learned about Rosicrucians?

4. Who does everyone look at in Canto II?

5. In Canto I, how many bright Inhabitants of Air watch over Belinda?

Short Essay Questions

1. What altar does the Baron build before dawn?

2. Where does Ariel sit when he starts the meeting of the sylphs, and how is he described?

3. How is the honor of chaste young women guarded?

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

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

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

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

8. What do the sylphs look like when they gater around the sails of the boat?

9. How is the day starting in Canto I?

10. What are the tasks of the sylphs?

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

The Baron cuts a lock of Belinda’s hair. Is the act a sexual assault or simply an assault?

Essay Topic 3

Alexander Pope writes an introduction to The Rape of the Lock explaining why he wrote the poem. Why did Pope write The Rape of the Lock?

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