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

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

3. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?
(a) The contrast between passion and virtue.
(b) The difference between lust and love.
(c) The reversal of expected gender roles.
(d) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.

4. According to the speaker, what is the one thing that the horse lacks?
(a) Independence.
(b) Humility.
(c) A proud rider.
(d) Rich trappings.

5. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"
(a) Personification.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

4. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?

5. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?

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