1. The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque. A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works. It derived from Italian burla, which means___?
a) manner
b) Ridicule
c) Serious
d) Tragic comedy
springline's Correct option: b) Ridicule
2. Rape of the Lock , it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos . How many lines were in this two cantos____?
a) 365 lines
b) 345 lines
c) 333 lines
d) 334 lines
springline's Correct option: d) 334 lines
3. A revised edition ‘Written by Mr. Pope’ followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings. In first four days, Pope boasted that this sold the copies of more than _____?
a) two thousand copies
b) four thousand copies
c) three thousand copies
d) five thousand copies
springline's Correct option: c) three thousand copies
4. The Rape of the Lock’s final form of the poem appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem was much translated and contributed to the growing popularity of mock-heroic in ______?
a) London
b) England
c) Italy
d) Europe
springline's Correct option: d) Europe
5. The poem ,The Rape of the Lock satirises a small incident by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an actual event recounted to the poet by Pope's friend,______?
a) John Caryll
b) Jonathan Swift
c) Thomas Parnell
d) John Arbuthnot
springline's Correct option: a) John Caryll
6. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families, at a time in England when, under such laws as the ________?
a) The First Act of Supremacy
b) The Act of Union
c) Test Act
d) Pass Act
springline's Correct option: c) Test Act
7. Pope utilised the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced an entire system of ‘sylphs’, or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodised version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. Pope derived his sylphs from the 17th-century French Rosicrucian novel _____?
a) Le Grand Meaulnes
b) Comte de Gabalis
c) Les Miserables
d) Pere Goriot
springline's Correct option: b) Comte de Gabalis
8. Pope, also a Catholic, wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to 'comically merge the two' worlds, the heroic with the social. Pope, writing pseudonymously as Esdras Barnivelt, also published ‘A Key to the Lock’ in ____.
a) 1714
b) 1715
c) 1711
d) 1717
springline's Correct option: a) 1714
9. Pope's poem uses the traditional high stature of classical epics to emphasise the triviality of the incident. The abduction of Helen of Troy becomes here the theft of a lock of hair; the gods become minute sylphs; the description of Achilles' shield becomes an excursus on one of Belinda's ________?
a) Beauty
b) Ear rings
c) Hair
d) Petticoats
springline's Correct option: d) Petticoats
10. In Rape of the Lock; Pope also uses the epic style of invocations, lamentations, exclamations and similes, and in some cases adds parody to imitation by following the framework of actual speeches in _____?
a) Plato’s republic
b) the Ars Poetica
c) Homer’s Iliad
d) Odyssey
springline's Correct option: c) Homer’s Iliad
11. Rape of the Lock; Which is the poem comes from the ‘storm in a teacup’ being couched within the elaborate, formal verbal structure of an epic poem?
a) Humour
b) Serious
c) Mockery
d) Social class
springline's Correct option: a) Humour
12. In Rape of the Lock; Belinda is still asleep, her guardian Sylph Ariel forewarns her that ‘some dread event impends’. Belinda then awakes and gets ready for the day with the help of her maid_____?.
a) Thalestris
b) Betty
c) Ariel
d) Clarissa
springline's Correct option: b) Betty
13. Rape of the Lock; Ariel, disturbed by the impending event although not knowing what it will be, summons many sylphs to her and instructs them to guard Belinda from anything that may befall her, whether ‘she forget her prayers’. So protected, Belinda arrives at Hampton Court and is invited to play a game of ________?
a) Myst
b) Contra
c) Tetris
d) Ombre
springline's Correct option: d) Ombre
14. In Rape of the Lock; The conspiring Baron acquires a pair of scissors and tries to snip off one of her locks, but he is prevented by the watchful Sylphs. How many times this was happen?
a) two times
b) three times
c) four times
d) five times
springline's Correct option: b) three times
15. John Ozell and Pope belonged to different political factions and later exchanged bitter insults, the coincidence of Ozell's translation of a pioneering Italian mock-heroic poem, at about the same time as the appearance of The Rape of the Lock, led to the claim that it might have served as the model for Pope's poem. Pope's original two-canto version had been published anonymously in _____.
a) 1712
b) 1711
c) 1714
d) 1716
springline's Correct option: a) 1712
16. Which is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell. It was discovered at the same time as Ariel and named after a character in Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock?
a) Clarissa
b) Thalestris
c) Umbriel
d) Zephyretta
springline's Correct option: c) Umbriel
17. Pope's fanciful conclusion to his work, translating the stolen lock into the sky, where ‘midst the stars [it] inscribes Belinda's name’, contributed to the eventual naming of three of the moons of Uranus after characters from The Rape of the Lock. Which is an inner satellite of the planet Uranus ?
a) Baron
b) Belinda
c) Umbriel
d) Ariel
springline's Correct option: b) Belinda
18. In The Rape of the Lock; The inner satellite Belinda was discovered in 1986, and is the only other of the planet's twenty-seven moons taken from Pope's poem rather than works of_______?
a) Shakespeare
b) Jonathan Swift
c) Thomas Parnell
d) John Milton
springline's Correct option: a) Shakespeare
19. The German translation of the Rape of the lock published from Leipzig in 1744 had five copperplate engravings by Anna Maria Werner (1689–1753), the court painter of_______?
a) Germanic
b) England
c) French
d) Saxony
springline's Correct option: d) Saxony
20. The 1714 edition of The Rape of the Lock and those that followed from Lintot's press had come with six woodcuts designed by ____?
a) Nicholas Ferrar
b) Louis Du Guernier
c) Gerard Manley
d) Thomas Carew
springline's Correct option: b) Louis Du Guernier
21. The nine photo-engravings with which Aubrey Beardsley 'embroidered' the 1896 edition of the poem Rape of the Lock, the contemporary revival of interest, it was drew on the French style of_________?
a) Free Verse
b) Acrostic
c) Rococo
d) Limerick
springline's Correct option: c) Rococo
22. Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the______?
a) Satire
b) Reversal
c) Blank Verse
d) Heroic couplet
springline's Correct option: d) Heroic couplet
23. Pope is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, he is the second-most quoted author in _______?
a) The Oxford Dictionary of Fame
b) The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
c) The Oxford Dictionary of Poet
d) The Oxford Dictionary of Argument
springline's Correct option: b) The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
24. Who introduced the young Pope to the ageing playwright William Wycherley and to William Walsh, a minor poet, who helped Pope revise his first major work, The Pastorals ?
a) Swift
b) Nicholas Ferrar
c) John Caryll
d) Lady Mary Montague
springline's Correct option: c) John Caryll
25. Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock, first published in 1712, with a revised version in 1714. A mock-epic. The satirical style is tempered, however, by a genuine, almost voyeuristic interest in the ‘beau-monde’ of 18th-century society. Beau-monde which means______?
a) social class
b) fairy world
c) Mockery world
d) Fashionable world
springline's Correct option: d) Fashionable world
26. Pope's poetic career testifies to an indomitable spirit despite disadvantages of health and circumstance. The poet and his family were Catholics and so fell subject to the prohibitive Test Acts, which hampered their co-religionists after the abdication of___?
a) James II
b) James I
c) Charles II
d) Charles I
springline's Correct option: a) James II
27. By the mid-18th century, new fashions in poetry emerged. A decade after Pope's death, Who claimed that Pope's style was not the most excellent form of the art ?
a) Swift
b) Joseph Warton
c) William Cheseldn
d) John Dryden
springline's Correct option: b) Joseph Warton
28. Pope met the Blount sisters, Teresa and Martha, both of whom remained lifelong friends. Who was twenty years older than the poet and had made many acquaintances in the London literary world ?
a) John Caryll
b) Jonathan Swift
c) Joseph Warton
d) Aristophanes
springline's Correct option: a) John Caryll
29. Who identified Pope as one of his chief influences – believing his own scathing satire of contemporary English literature English Bards and Scotch Reviewers to be a continuance of Pope's tradition ?
a) Mark Twain
b) Ambrose Bierce
c) Keats
d) Lord Byron
springline's Correct option: d) Lord Byron
30. Pope's health, which had never been good, was failing. When told by his physician, on the morning of his death, that he was better, Pope replied: ‘Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. He died at his villa surrounded by friends on ______?
a) 31st May 1741
b) 30 May 1744
c) 30 June 1744
d) 30 July 1744
springline's Correct option: b) 30 May 1744