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1. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?
(a) Henry Wriothesley.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) The Earl of Southampton.
(b) James I.
(c) Anne Hathaway.
(d) Elizabeth I.

3. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Purple and blue.
(b) White and purple.
(c) Red and white.
(d) Blue and red.

4. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?
(a) Pick flowers.
(b) Nap.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Eat lunch.

5. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(b) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(c) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(d) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.

6. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) The sun.
(b) A flower.
(c) A stag.
(d) A stallion.

7. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Malapropism.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Paradox.

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