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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. When Venus shakes her head and then Adonis's hand, looks at him and then at the ground, what is it most reasonable to infer about her motivation?
(a) She is having second thoughts about her confession of love.
(b) She is attempting to distract Adonis from her real intentions.
(c) She is too shy to explain to Adonis exactly what she wants from him.
(d) She is too distraught to know how to proceed.

2. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Pygmalion.
(b) Narcissus.
(c) Icarus.
(d) The Minotaur.

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"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Paralepsis.

4. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?
(a) The horse is compared to an escaped slave.
(b) The bit is compared to an unjust law.
(c) The bit is compared to logic and reason.
(d) The horse is compared to an unruly child.

5. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

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