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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 metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?
(a) The bit is compared to logic and reason.
(b) The horse is compared to an unruly child.
(c) The bit is compared to an unjust law.
(d) The horse is compared to an escaped slave.

2. How does Venus know that the dogs are barking at a boar, bear, or lion?
(a) She hears the excited cries of the hunters with the dogs.
(b) The sound of their barking is stationary.
(c) She cannot hear the sound of anything running through the brush.
(d) The dogs sound excited and frightened.

3. When Venus and Adonis are on the ground kissing in lines 547-558, what is Venus being compared to?
(a) A soldier on the field of battle.
(b) A greedy child at the table.
(c) A destructive storm at sea.
(d) A predatory wild animal.

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

5. What technique is used in lines 815 and 816, "Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky,/ So glides he in the night from Venus’ eye"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synecdoche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does line 972 compare to "many clouds consulting for foul weather"?

2. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's characterization of Adonis as having a "mermaid's voice" (line 429)?

3. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?

4. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?

5. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?

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