Study Question on Donne's Holy Sonnet #18

1. What Protestant idea about Christianity does the following line refer to? "Sleeps she a thousand, then peeps up one year?" Hint: see the following statement about the Reformation:

   The Protestant Reformation came about through an impulse to repair the Church and return it to what the reformers saw as its original biblical structure, belief, and practice, and was motivated by a sense that "the medieval church had allowed its traditions to clutter the way to God with fees and human regulations and thus to subvert the gospel of Christ."

2. Why would the question, "Dwells she with us . . . ?" be especially biting in England? (Hint: What was peculiar about the founding of the Anglican Church?)
3. What are the "startling sexual associations" mentioned footnote #8?
4. What is the core problem that this poem addresses? Is that problem solved?