Some sample questions from this category:
* In the poem, who was "shock"?
* What do women of "soft yielding minds" become after death?
* Who adores the "sparkling cross" Belinda has on her neck?
* The predominant literary device in the line "Or Stain her honor, or her new brocade" (canto 2- line 107) is:
* What card game do the Baron and Belinda play?
* What is NOT an item or ability brought back by the Gnome to fight the Baron?
* According to Pope, which weighed more?
* What does Belinda's hair become in the end?
* This satirical poem was inspired by an incident between Lord Petre and Miss Arabella Fermor.
* From which of the following did Pope not suffer?
* "A little ____ is a dangerous thing." What word is missing from this famous Popeian phrase?
* "Just as the ___ is bent, the tree's inclined." What's missing?
* In what profound undertaking did Pope attempt to "vindicate the ways of God to man"?
* What member of the Scriblerus Club did Pope help to publish "Gulliver's Travels"?
* Where does hope spring eternal, according to Pope?
* Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare was roundly attacked. He responded with what burlesque ridiculing critics and writers?
* What poem was inspired by a man who secretly eloped with his pregnant pupil, only to be castrated at the command of her uncle?
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