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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 flower.
(b) The sun.
(c) A stag.
(d) A stallion.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the poem dedicated?

2. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?

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

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

5. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?

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