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. A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?

   A. Feminist
   B. Reader Response
   C. Formalist
   D. Mimetic

9. Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?

   A. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
   B. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
   C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
   D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers

10. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work_________________?

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