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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Lines 1-216.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) A stag.
(b) The sun.
(c) A flower.
(d) A stallion.

2. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?
(a) Alliteration and assonance.
(b) Onomatopoeia and metonymy.
(c) Assonance and onomatopoeia.
(d) Metonymy and alliteration.

3. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) A duck.
(b) A swimmer.
(c) A fish.
(d) An osprey.

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

5. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) The Minotaur.
(b) Narcissus.
(c) Pygmalion.
(d) Icarus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?

4. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?

5. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

(see the answer key)

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