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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. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?
(a) Inversion.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Antistrophe.
(d) Parallelism.

2. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?
(a) Winks.
(b) Smiles.
(c) Shudders.
(d) Moans.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Venus compare her own lips when she says that Adonis's lips are "sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted" (line 511)?

2. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

3. 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?

4. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?

5. What causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?

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