Pope's Rape of the Lock and Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes

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  1. The Rape of the Lock first appeared in what year:
    1612
    1726
    1712
    1726
  2. The Rape of the Lock is typically labelled:
    An epic
    A mock epic
    A tragedy
    A mock tragedy
    A comedy
    A mock comedy
  3. The Rape of the Lock is a parody of other epics such as:
    Iliad, Aeneid, Paradise Lost
    Tom Jones, Clarissa, Moll Flanders
    King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth
  4. The real-life event that caused Pope to write The Rape of the Lock was:
    Lord Petre's stealing of a kiss from the lovely Arabella Fermor
    Lord Petre's cutting of a lock of hair from the head of the lovely Arabella Fermor
  5. In his prefatory letter, Pope defines the "machinery" of the poem as:
    The use of cantos, stanzas, rhymed couplets, and iambic pentameter in the poem
    The part that deities, angels, and demons are made to play in the poem
  6. In the third line of the poem, the word "Caryll" is a reference to:
    The man who cut the lock of hair from the lady's head
    The man who suggested to Pope that he write The Rape of the Lock
  7. In the poem, the lady who loses the lock of hair is named:
    Arabella Fermor
    Belinda
    Sylph
    Caryll
    Zephyretta
  8. The humor of The Rape of the Lock is supposed to come about mainly from:
    The bawdy jokes that Pope slips in at every moment of the poem
    The juxtaposition of heroic things and epic language with trivial concerns of the chief characters
    The way small animals are viewed as dragons
  9. In the world of The Rape of the Lock, there are two groups of spirits. The good spirits are called:
    Fops
    Plumes
    Sylphs
    Gnomes
    Salamanders
  10. . In the world of The Rape of the Lock, there are two groups of spirits. The bad spirits are called:
    Fops
    Plumes
    Sylphs
    Gnomes
    Salamanders
  11. Belinda's chief and guardian sprite is named:
    Ariel
    Umbriel
    Caryll
    Clarissa
  12. In Canto III of The Rape of the Lock, there is reference to "combat on the velvet plain." This is:
    The battlefield on which the sylphs and gnomes fight each other
    The table on which the lords and ladies play their games of cards
    The lawns surrounding Rosamonda's Lake located in St. James' Park
    The green carpet on which Belinda fights it out with the Baron
  13. In Canto III of The Rape of the Lock, the line "China's earth receives the smoking tide" refers to:
    The fighting of the gnomes and salamanders in the great battle between Belinda's forces and those of the Baron's
    The pouring of tea into teacups
    A comparison Pope draws between Belinda's anger and a historical volcano erupting in China
  14. One of the sprites goes down to the Goddess of Spleen to request that Belinda be "touched with chagrin." Who is it?
    Ariel
    Umbriel
    Caryll
    Clarissa
  15. In the end, what happens to Belinda's lock of hair?
    She gets it back from the Baron after lengthy, protracted "warfare."
    The good sprites spirit it away from the Baron and return it to Belinda.
    The Baron burns it rather than give it back.
    It rises up into the stars and becomes a constellation.
    16. . The author of The Vanity of Human Wishes is:
    Alexander Pope
    Jonathan Swift
    Samuel Johnson
    John Dryden
  16. The Vanity of Human Wishes is modelled after poems by:
    Juvenal, an ancient Roman poet
    Juvenal, an ancient Greek poet
    Juvenal, a British poet from the time of Chaucer
    Horace, an ancient Roman poet
    Horace, an ancient Greek poet
    Horace, a British poet from the time of Chaucer
  17. In The Vanity of Human Wishes, the poet asks whether "helpless man [must], in ignorance sedate,/Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate [and] No cries invoke the mercies of the skies?" What is the answer the poet gives?
    No—.heaven doesn't hear our prayers, and all is vanity.
    Yes—.the heavens hear certain prayers, but only for the right sorts of things.
  18. In The Vanity of Human Wishes, the poet refers to "These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain,/These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain." What are these goods?
    Power, wealth, fame, youth, beauty, love
    Healthful mind, obedient passions, will resigned
    Quiet, tranquil peace of old age
  19. The final lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes read: "With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,/And makes the happiness she does not find." Who or what is the "she" referred to here?
    Celestial wisdom
    The human mind
    Happiness
    The lady to whom the poem is addressed

   

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