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

2. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?
(a) Henry Wriothesley.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Ovid.

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

4. 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) The residue of her own tears.
(c) Beads of sweat.
(d) The beginnings of a mustache.

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

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

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

4. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?

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

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