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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 compare to an informer and a spy?
(a) Love.
(b) Lust.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Jealousy.

2. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was like a broken-down cart horse.
(b) He was beautiful but not useful.
(c) He was as still as a statue.
(d) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.

3. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?
(a) Onomatopoeia and metonymy.
(b) Metonymy and alliteration.
(c) Alliteration and assonance.
(d) Assonance and onomatopoeia.

4. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?
(a) Mars.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Apollo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

2. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?

3. Why does Venus ask Adonis whether he saw her grow pale and tremble when he mentioned hunting boar?

4. 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?"

5. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

(see the answer key)

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