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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 is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?
(a) Ruins.
(b) Angers.
(c) Considers.
(d) Ignores.

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

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

4. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Malapropism.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Inversion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?

2. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?

3. Which technique is used in lines 221 and 222, "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak/ And now her sobs do her intendments break"?

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 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?"

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