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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 are some nymphs too conscious of?

2. How are the sylphs described as they wait for what might befall Belinda?

3. What does Belinda dream of in Canto I?

4. In Canto I, at what time do sleepless lovers wake (16)?

5. Where do sylphs guard the purity of maidens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the boat glide on the river?

5. What is machinery?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Belinda has regrets after the lock of hair is cut from her head. Could Beilnda have changed the course of events and kept her lock of hair? Why does Belinda have regrets?

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

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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