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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Lines 613-810.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Venus's main criticism of chastity?
(a) It shows ingratitude toward the gods.
(b) It prevents her from getting what she wants.
(c) It prevents people from having children.
(d) It is a needlessly joyless practice.

2. What type of human does Venus compare the boar to?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A hangman.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A thief.

3. What technique is used in lines 647 and 648, "My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,/ But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast"?
(a) Diacope.
(b) Malapropism.
(c) Simile.
(d) Euphony.

4. What technique is used in line 431, "Melodious discord, heavenly tune, harsh-sounding"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Anaphora.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?

2. What does the speaker compare to caves?

3. What does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).

4. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?

5. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

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