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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Venus compared to when she hears the sound of the hunting dogs baying?
(a) Someone who sees a poisonous snake.
(b) A doe rushing to feed her fawn.
(c) A soldier deserting the battlefield.
(d) A lamp brighter than the sun himself.

2. What technique is used in lines 815 and 816, "Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky,/ So glides he in the night from Venus’ eye"?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

3. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?
(a) The stallion.
(b) Adonis.
(c) The mare.
(d) Venus.

4. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Antistrophe.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Anadiplosis.

5. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) Beads of sweat.
(b) The residue of her own tears.
(c) The beginnings of a mustache.
(d) The sickly green shade of his skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of the passage, what does Venus say Adonis must do in order for her to release his hand?

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

3. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

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

5. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

(see the answer key)

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