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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Lines 613-810.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?
(a) To enjoy youth while it lasts.
(b) To accept the admiration his great beauty causes.
(c) To obey the will of a goddess.
(d) To have sex and beget children.

2. What technique is used in lines 647 and 648, "My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,/ But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast"?
(a) Diacope.
(b) Simile.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Euphony.

3. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?
(a) A boar.
(b) His religious faith.
(c) His horse.
(d) His own purity.

4. 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 are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.
(b) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in lines 693 and 694, "Ceasing their clamorous cry, till they have singled/ With much ado the cold fault cleanly out"?

3. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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