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

2. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?
(a) Her heart.
(b) The field.
(c) Her arms.
(d) A ring of flowers.

3. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Violence.
(b) Impulsiveness.
(c) Immodesty.
(d) Callousness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?

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

3. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

4. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

5. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?

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