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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. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?
(a) With desire.
(b) With laughter.
(c) With compassion.
(d) With contempt.

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).
(a) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(b) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.
(c) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.
(d) Her tears and flattery are incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.

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

4. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?
(a) Polyptoton.
(b) Epimone.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Anaphora.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?

2. 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?

3. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?

4. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?

5. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?

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