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

2. 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"?
(a) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(b) Metaphor and alliteration.
(c) Diacope and onomatopoeia.
(d) Alliteration and diacope.

3. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?
(a) The comparison of the stallion's steamy breath to a fiery furnace of passion.
(b) Venus's comparison of Adonis to Narcissus and her warning about Narcissus's fate.
(c) Venus trying to persuade Adonis by bragging about having conquered the god of war.
(d) The description of the silent struggle between Venus and Adonis as a "war" of looks.

4. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) A fish.
(b) A swimmer.
(c) A duck.
(d) An osprey.

5. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Conceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?

2. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

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

4. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

5. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?

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