Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?

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1. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?

   A. the heroic couplet
   B. blank verse
   C. free verse
   D. the ode

2. The elegy began as an ancient metrical form ?

   A. French
   B. Greek
   C. Roman
   D. German

3. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?

   A. The Bahagavad Gita
   B. The Odyssey
   C. The Illiad
   D. The Aeneid

4. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

   A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27
   B. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
   C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
   D. He just wasn’t bright enough

5. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?

   A. To err is human, to forgive divine
   B. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
   C. A little learning is a dangerous thing
   D. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

6. What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”

   A. The Rape of the Lock
   B. Solitude: An Ode
   C. The Dunciad
   D. Eloisa to Abelard

7. It was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish’d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. … I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable, and annex’d to each a short Precept, which fully express’d the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

8. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?

   A. The government
   B. Marriage
   C. Organized religion
   D. All of these answers

9. Pope’s comment that “Know, then, thyself, presume God not to scan;/The proper study of mankind is man” in his “Essay on Man” is indicative of all of the following EXCEPT______________?

   A. his use of the heroic couplet.
   B. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.
   C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.
   D. a radical questioning of revealed religion

10. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work_________________?

    A. The Rape of Lock
    B. The Deserted Village
    C. Spectator
    D. Man was made to mourn