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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 type of pie talks in the Cave of Spleen?

2. On how many tricks does Belinda's fate in the card game stand (94)?

3. When a nymph rejects the power of the queen of the Cave of Spleen, how many others think the same?

4. What type of pinions does Umbriel have?

5. Where does the Baron say Belinda's lock will always be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What handmaids does the queen have in the Cave of Spleen?

2. How does Belinda do during the game at first, and how does the tide turn?

3. Where does Umbriel find Belinda, and what does he do when he sees her?

4. Where do Belinda and her companions go?

5. What bodies can be seen on every side in the cave that have been changed to different forms by anger?

6. What does Thalestris tell Belinda?

7. How does the Baron play the jack of diamonds, and how does Belinda respond?

8. What does the Baron say about returning the lock?

9. What is Umbriel's journey like to the Cave of Spleen, and what is the atmosphere in the cave?

10. How does Belinda beat the Baron?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clarissa gives a speech criticizing women’s vanity and frivolity. Why are Belinda and Thalestris not interested in what Clarissa has to say? What does their response reveal about their frivolity and how they and other character are frivolous?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Belinda feels she has been greatly harmed by the loss of the lock of hair. Why does Belinda feel that she has been greatly harmed by the loss of her lock? How does the loss of the lock of hair affect Belinda’s honor?

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