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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. How many sylphs are to watch over Belinda's petticoat?

2. Who would kiss the cross that Belinda wore?

3. How many gloves did the Baron burn?

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

5. What does Ariel say that his task and the task of his denizens is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Pope write about hard words and explanation in the introduction to the poem?

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

6. What is machinery?

7. What altar does the Baron build before dawn?

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

9. How is the Baron's prayer answered before his fire?

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

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

Canto III begins with a pleasant sail to Hampton Court. How does Pope build the tension in this section of the poem to the climax where the Baron cuts Belinda’s ringlet?

Essay Topic 3

Ariel and the sylphs attempt to stop the Baron from cutting Belinda’s hair. How do Ariel and the sylphs attempt to stop the Baron? Why does Ariel become impotent, and he and the sylphs have to quit trying to protect Belinda?

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