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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 time of day did the Baron burn old tokens from love affairs?

2. With how many hairs can beauty draw someone?

3. What does Belinda dream of in Canto I?

4. When have the nurse and the priest told Belinda about when elves dance?

5. In Canto I, through what color curtains does the sun shine (13)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Belinda compared to the sun when she gets on a boat with her friends?

3. What does Belinda use as she prepares for the day?

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

5. How is Belinda described in Canto II?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personification is a type of figurative language that assigns human characteristics to inanimate objects. How does Pope use personification in The Rape of the Lock? How does the use of personification assist readers in imagining scenes and objects?

Essay Topic 2

Belinda starts a fight to get her ringlet back. What type of fight ensues? What happens to the lock? How will the lock cause Belinda to be immortalized?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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