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What is the name of Strephon's love interest in Swift's poem?

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What is the name of Strephon's love interest in Swift's poem?

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Celia

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What is the first item Strephon lists as part of his "inventory"?

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A dirty smock besmeared beneath the armpits

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How does Montagu shift the action in Swift's poem to her advantage?

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She attacks his sexual performance and accuses him of writing his poem because of a bad experience with a prostitute himself.

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How does Strephon leave the scene of the dressing room? a) unaffected, wishing only that he had found his love there. b) entranced, appreciating the miracle of "such gaudy tulips raised from dung" (144) c) disgusted, turning to blaspheming the "ointments, daubs, and paints, and creams" used by women in search of beauty

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Disgusted, turning to blaspheming the "ointments, daubs, and paints, and creams" used by women in search of beauty

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What main characters does Montagu present in response to Swift? Celia the Doctor Betty Strephon Pope

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The Doctor Betty

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Which of the following can be used to describe Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room"? pastoral mock-pastoral mock-epic satire scatalogical humor

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Mock-pastoral Satire Scatalogical humor

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To whom does the "The Doctor" refer in the opening lines of Montagu's poem?

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Swift

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