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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Lines 217-408.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?
(a) Justice.
(b) Water.
(c) Flight.
(d) Heat.

3. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?
(a) Polyptoton.
(b) Epimone.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Anaphora.

4. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?
(a) A valley.
(b) A small barn.
(c) A fenced area.
(d) A stand of trees.

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"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?

2. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?

3. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?

4. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

5. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?

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