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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 was Ariel doing when he flew from Belinda?

2. How are the knaves on the Ombre cards described?

3. At noon, what type of judges quickly sign sentences?

4. How do Belinda's Matador cards move when she plays Ombre?

5. What suit does the Baron play after successes in Ombre (75)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens around noon in Canto III?

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

4. What does Umbriel request from the queen?

5. What cards are pressed into battle as the card game begins?

6. What does Belinda think about a card game with two knights?

7. What happens after the sylphs withdraw from Belinda?

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

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

10. What type of conversations often take place at Hampton?

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

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

The Baron cuts a lock of Belinda’s hair. Is the act a sexual assault or simply an assault?

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