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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Lines 1009-1194.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the various forms of repetition in lines 833 and 834, "'Ay me!' she cries, and twenty times, 'Woe, woe!'/ And twenty echoes twenty times cry so," meant to convey?
(a) The repetition stresses Venus's passion and mimics the sound of echoing.
(b) The repetition highlights the difference between Venus's display of grief and the shallowness of her real feelings.
(c) The repetition mimics the way Venus keeps running back and forth looking for Adonis.
(d) The repetition demonstrates that Venus's lust has become genuine love.

2. Which is the most logical interpretation of the phase "her sight dazzling" when Venus is looking at Adonis's body in line 1064?
(a) Venus's vision has begun to blur and swim.
(b) Venus's eyes seem to glitter like jewels.
(c) Venus finds Adonis beautiful even in death.
(d) Venus's eyes still mislead her into thinking lust is love.

3. 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"?
(a) Sibilance.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Euphony.
(d) Assonance.

4. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Callousness.
(b) Impulsiveness.
(c) Immodesty.
(d) Violence.

5. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?
(a) Because Venus does not know the outcome yet, it is best for her to focus on hope, because at least in the interim she has one last chance to be happy.
(b) Both of these extreme emotions are ridiculous and problematic for Venus, but she cannot help vacillating between them because she is in love.
(c) The fear of loss makes it almost impossible to hold on to hope, but part of being in love is allowing oneself to be vulnerable and take emotional risks.
(d) Venus is making a spectacle of herself by wildly veering between hope and despair, and her lack of common sense implies that what she calls love is more likely lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 868, "She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn," which technique best conveys Venus's straining to hear a quiet, far-off sound?

2. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?

3. What is the most reasonable interpretation of what Venus means when she asks "Where did I leave?” and Adonis replies “No matter where" (line 715)?

4. When Venus suddenly has hope that Adonis is alive, who is the "rash suspect" that she "doth extenuate" (line 1009)?

5. 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)?

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