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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Lines 409-612.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?
(a) The stallion returns to Adonis.
(b) Helios feels jealous of Adonis.
(c) Venus agrees to let Adonis leave.
(d) Adonis kisses Venus.

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

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 reversal of expected gender roles.
(b) The contrast between passion and virtue.
(c) The difference between lust and love.
(d) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.

4. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?
(a) Cupid drawing his bow.
(b) Adonis's stallion's seduction of the mare.
(c) Venus's lustful thoughts.
(d) The words Adonis intends to say.

5. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).

3. Which is the best definition of "stillitory" in line 443, "For from the stillitory of thy face excelling"?

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 does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

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