Pope

Question 1

Rape of the Lock: Pope born

Answer 1

1688

Question 2

Rape of the Lock: Pope dies

Answer 2

1744

Question 3

Rape of the Lock: short version written

Answer 3

1712

Question 4

Rape of the Lock: long version written

Answer 4

1717

Question 5

Rape of the Lock: science

Answer 5

Rosicrucianism

Question 6

Rape of the Lock: hierarchy, cosmos

Answer 6

playing with scale

Question 7

Rape of the Lock: imperial vantage

Answer 7

contrast of scale; the downfall of epic; tortoise and elephant combs, symbols of empire

Question 8

Rape of the Lock: genre

Answer 8

mock epic

Question 9

Rape of the Lock: list epic features

Answer 9

1. Feast (coffee at lacquered tables)
2. Battle (ombre)
3. Swarthy Moor (Matadore in ombre)
4. Queen of Amazons (Thalestris)
5. Moralizing interjections (“O thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate… Sudden these honors shall be snatched away”)

Question 10

Rape of the Lock: addressed to

Answer 10

John Caryll, who suggested it

Question 11

Rape of the Lock: tone

Answer 11

light, mild, charming reproach (let’s laugh about this)

Question 12

Rape of the Lock: billet-doux are

Answer 12

love letters

Question 13

Rape of the Lock: ombre is

Answer 13

a card game (matadores, spadillio, manillio, basto)

Question 14

Rape of the Lock: setting

Answer 14

At Belinda’s place first, then Hampton Court near the Thames

Question 15

Rape of the Lock: The Baron

Answer 15

(Lord Petre, Arabella’s suitor) cuts lock

Question 16

Rape of the Lock: Belinda

Answer 16

(Arabella Fermor) has lock cut

Question 17

Rape of the Lock: Clarissa

Answer 17

woman in attendance at Hampton Court party, helps Baron by giving scissors, delivers moralizing lecture at the end

Question 18

Rape of the Lock: Ariel

Answer 18

Guardian Sylph (sylphs - spirits of coquettes)

Question 19

Rape of the Lock: Shock

Answer 19

lapdog poodle

Question 20

Rape of the Lock: Betty

Answer 20

Belinda’s maid

Question 21

Rape of the Lock: name some of the sylphs

Answer 21

Zephyretta, Brillante, Momentilla, Crispissa, Ariel

Question 22

Rape of the Lock: Zephyretta, Brillante, Momentilla, Crispissa, Ariel

Answer 22

the sylphs

Question 23

Rape of the Lock: Umbriel

Answer 23

chief gnome, retrieves tears and sighs from Cave of Spleen to vex B

Question 24

Rape of the Lock: Thalestris

Answer 24

(Gertrude Morley, friend of Pope’s) – Belinda’s friend who eggs her on to wrath, i.e. Queen of Amazons

Question 25

Rape of the Lock: based on actual episode between

Answer 25

two prominent Catholic families (P wanted to prevent ridicule)

Question 26

Rape of the Lock: 1712 version

Answer 26

334 lines; a great success

Question 27

Rape of the Lock: second version started in 1713 and published in 1717. How long, compared to first?

Answer 27

2-3 times as long

Question 28

Rape of the Lock: second version started in 1713 and published in 1717. Written against whose advice? Why this advice?

Answer 28

Addison’s; thought it was perfect

Question 29

Rape of the Lock: second version started in 1713 and published in 1717. Adds what?

Answer 29

Epic “machinery” (supernatural agents in epic action) of Sylphs; Belinda’s toilet; card game; Cave of Spleen

Question 30

Rape of the Lock: Pope the first writer to build

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a lucrative life-long career of his writing

Question 31

Rape of the Lock: in 1706-1711 Pope is friends with

Answer 31

Congreve, Walsh, Steele, Addison (Whigs)

Question 32

Rape of the Lock: Pope’s friends (Congreve, Walsh, Steele, Addison) are

Answer 32

Whigs

Question 33

Rape of the Lock: Pope later adopts new friends:

Answer 33

Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell (Tories)

Question 34

Rape of the Lock: Pope’s friends (Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, John Gay, and Thomas Parnell) were

Answer 34

Tories

Question 35

Rape of the Lock: Scriblerus Club

Answer 35

written with tories Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell; fosters satiric temper that appears in Gulliver’s Travels, The Beggar’s Opera, The Dunciad

Question 36

Rape of the Lock: Martinus Scriblerus

Answer 36

In 1714 Pope, Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell write a biography of a learned fool, Martnius Scriblerus, who writes commentary on educated nonsense

Question 37

Rape of the Lock: references the monarch,

Answer 37

Anne (Anna). Sometimes she takes tea at Hampton Court

Question 38

Rape of the Lock: Test Act

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(1673): all denominations except Anglicanism suffered legal restrictions and penalties (for example, Petre could not take his place in the House of Lords as a Catholic)

Question 39

Rape of the Lock: what recent law is important to understanding this piece?

Answer 39

Test Act (1673)

Question 40

Rape of the Lock: name a source P draws on, aside from epics

Answer 40

Le Comte de Gabalis: where Rosicrucian spirits discussed (Pope explains in intro letter; says it’s so much like a novel many ladies have read it by mistake)

Question 41

Rape of the Lock: quote about the impending disaster, “Whether the nymph shall break…”

Answer 41

“Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law, / Or some frail china jar receive a flaw . . . Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall.”

Question 42

Rape of the Lock: taste

Answer 42

B’s toilet; the abundance of items, superfluities, which are a hodge podge of items related to imperial wealth; requires taste (i.e. discrimination) to sort out important from unimportant. The lock isn’t important.

Question 43

Rape of the Lock: talking point, contrast of scale

Answer 43

Most epics, imperial vantage point greater than the enemy’s is a triumph; here the vantage point is so much wider that the result is comical.

Question 44

Rape of the Lock: Rosicrucianism (i.e. sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, salamanders)

Answer 44

17th-c. cultural movement seeking esoteric order to the universe (Giardono Bruno, hermeticism)
o Frances Yates, “Yates Thesis”: beginnings of science