Pope Test Exam With 100% Correct
Answers
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this couplet? - correct answers
✔✔E)None of the above answers are correct
In the excerpt from Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock, how does Pope use antitheses to
mock upper class pretentions? - correct answers ✔✔C)Both A and B are correct answers
Which of the following is a TRUE statement regarding the background of Alexander Pope? -
correct answers ✔✔D)Both A and B are correct answers
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this couplet:
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,/As those move easiest who have learned to
dance" - correct answers ✔✔C)Showing that good writing comes from practice or skill, not luck
or accident
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,/As those move easiest who have learned to
dance"
Which of the following is a TRUE statement regarding the difference between what is suggested
by the words, art and chance in the couplet above? - correct answers ✔✔C)Pope is suggesting
that art is purposeful and carefully practiced, while chance or "luck", merely relies on fortune
Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the excerpt from Pope's An Essay on
Man? - correct answers ✔✔B)In almost every couplet, Pope says something insulting about
humanity only to follow it with something flattering
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this triplet:
, "Music resembles poetry: in each/Are nameless graces which no methods teach,/And which a
master hand alone can reach" - correct answers ✔✔C)Suggesting that geniuses are born, not
made
In the excerpt from Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock, in lines 7-8 ("Here thou great Anna
whom three realms obey,/Dost sometimes counsel take-and sometimes tea.") Pope specifically
uses the verb "take" because in this context it has two subjects or objects, yet the two contexts
have very different meanings. Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding this figure
of speech? - correct answers ✔✔E)None of the above are correct answers to this question
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this couplet:
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,/Nor yet the last to lay the old aside" - correct
answers ✔✔A)Comparing writing to putting on clothes
•Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the background of Alexander Pope? -
correct answers ✔✔E)None of the above are correct answers
In the excerpt from Pope's An Essay on Man, Pope says that humankind is the "Sole judge of
truth, in endless error hurled:/The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" Which of the following
would come under the heading of "riddle"? - correct answers ✔✔D)Both B and C are correct
answers
In the excerpt from Pope's An Essay on Man, in the couplet "Placed on this isthmus of a middle
state,/A being darkly wise and rudely great:" which of the following is a TRUE statement? -
correct answers ✔✔E)All the above answers are correct
In the excerpt from Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock, which of the following is a FALSE
statement regarding how Belinda defeats the Baron? - correct answers ✔✔C)She stabs the
Baron with a bodkin that she pulls from her hair, and he dies from the wound
Answers
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this couplet? - correct answers
✔✔E)None of the above answers are correct
In the excerpt from Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock, how does Pope use antitheses to
mock upper class pretentions? - correct answers ✔✔C)Both A and B are correct answers
Which of the following is a TRUE statement regarding the background of Alexander Pope? -
correct answers ✔✔D)Both A and B are correct answers
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this couplet:
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,/As those move easiest who have learned to
dance" - correct answers ✔✔C)Showing that good writing comes from practice or skill, not luck
or accident
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,/As those move easiest who have learned to
dance"
Which of the following is a TRUE statement regarding the difference between what is suggested
by the words, art and chance in the couplet above? - correct answers ✔✔C)Pope is suggesting
that art is purposeful and carefully practiced, while chance or "luck", merely relies on fortune
Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the excerpt from Pope's An Essay on
Man? - correct answers ✔✔B)In almost every couplet, Pope says something insulting about
humanity only to follow it with something flattering
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this triplet:
, "Music resembles poetry: in each/Are nameless graces which no methods teach,/And which a
master hand alone can reach" - correct answers ✔✔C)Suggesting that geniuses are born, not
made
In the excerpt from Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock, in lines 7-8 ("Here thou great Anna
whom three realms obey,/Dost sometimes counsel take-and sometimes tea.") Pope specifically
uses the verb "take" because in this context it has two subjects or objects, yet the two contexts
have very different meanings. Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding this figure
of speech? - correct answers ✔✔E)None of the above are correct answers to this question
Which of the following is one of the things Pope is doing in this couplet:
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,/Nor yet the last to lay the old aside" - correct
answers ✔✔A)Comparing writing to putting on clothes
•Which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the background of Alexander Pope? -
correct answers ✔✔E)None of the above are correct answers
In the excerpt from Pope's An Essay on Man, Pope says that humankind is the "Sole judge of
truth, in endless error hurled:/The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" Which of the following
would come under the heading of "riddle"? - correct answers ✔✔D)Both B and C are correct
answers
In the excerpt from Pope's An Essay on Man, in the couplet "Placed on this isthmus of a middle
state,/A being darkly wise and rudely great:" which of the following is a TRUE statement? -
correct answers ✔✔E)All the above answers are correct
In the excerpt from Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock, which of the following is a FALSE
statement regarding how Belinda defeats the Baron? - correct answers ✔✔C)She stabs the
Baron with a bodkin that she pulls from her hair, and he dies from the wound
