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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 technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metonymy.

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

3. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) The sickly green shade of his skin.
(b) Beads of sweat.
(c) The beginnings of a mustache.
(d) The residue of her own tears.

4. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?
(a) To accept the admiration his great beauty causes.
(b) To enjoy youth while it lasts.
(c) To obey the will of a goddess.
(d) To have sex and beget children.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

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

5. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?

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