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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 colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Red and white.
(b) Blue and red.
(c) Purple and blue.
(d) White and purple.

2. Toward the end of the passage, what does Venus say Adonis must do in order for her to release his hand?
(a) Give back her heart.
(b) Kiss her willingly.
(c) Promise not to leave.
(d) Admit that he desires her.

3. 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 more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.
(b) He was like a broken-down cart horse.
(c) He was beautiful but not useful.
(d) He was as still as a statue.

4. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?
(a) The power to increase crop yields.
(b) The power to cause memory loss and hallucinations.
(c) The power to cause sudden illness and death.
(d) The power to control the weather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?

2. Which is the best definition of "even" in Venus's question "What hour is this? or morn or weary even" (line 495)?

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

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

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

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