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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. To what are Belinda's eyes compared?

2. What does the Baron do when he admires Belinda's shining hair?

3. On what river can the sun be seen in Canto II?

4. How do people respond when Belinda rejects them?

5. Why did Pope revise the poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the tasks of the sylphs?

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

4. What did Pope write about the Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits?

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

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

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

8. How does the boat glide on the river?

9. What is machinery?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many different types of poem. What type of poem is The Rape of the Lock? Why is it a mock-epic and not an epic?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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