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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. What does the speaker compare to caves?
(a) Adonis's heart and mind.
(b) Adonis's dimples.
(c) Venus's arguments.
(d) Venus's eyes.

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

3. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Mars.
(d) Apollo.

4. 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) Apostrophe.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Imagery.

5. When Venus shakes her head and then Adonis's hand, looks at him and then at the ground, what is it most reasonable to infer about her motivation?
(a) She is too shy to explain to Adonis exactly what she wants from him.
(b) She is too distraught to know how to proceed.
(c) She is having second thoughts about her confession of love.
(d) She is attempting to distract Adonis from her real intentions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

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

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

4. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?

5. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

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