What mock epic begins: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things" ?
Correct answer: B. Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"
- A. Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe"
- B. Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"
- C. Pope's "The Dunciad"
- D. Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel"
Explanation
The opening invokes the mock-heroic theme of a trivial quarrel arising from a lock of hair, which identifies Pope's The Rape of the Lock. Mac Flecknoe and The Dunciad are also mock-heroic poems by Pope or Dryden, making them tempting alternatives.
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