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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?
(a) A flower.
(b) A bird.
(c) A horse.
(d) A fox.

2. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?
(a) Ignores.
(b) Considers.
(c) Ruins.
(d) Angers.

3. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paraprosdokian.
(d) Anadiplosis.

4. What technique is used in lines 819 and 820, "Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,/ Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend"?
(a) Innuendo.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. Whom does Venus address as a "clear god" (line 860)?
(a) The sky.
(b) The wind.
(c) The morning.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?

2. Where does Venus go first thing in the morning?

3. According to the speaker, what is the one thing that the horse lacks?

4. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?

5. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?

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