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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. How does Adonis view romantic love?
(a) He thinks it should be reserved for marriage.
(b) He thinks it elevates a person spiritually.
(c) He thinks it is chaotic and burdensome,
(d) He thinks it is frightening and dangerous.

2. What is Venus's motive for flattering death?
(a) She feels genuinely sorry that she has accused him.
(b) She fears that death will try to take her life, too.
(c) She hopes it will keep death from taking Adonis.
(d) She is relieved and her natural flirtatiousness returns.

3. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?
(a) They stress that all three yield delicious meat and useful skins.
(b) They stress how fast and clever these animals are.
(c) They stress how numerous and easily spotted these creatures are.
(d) They stress the timid and retiring nature of these animals.

4. What does Venus say the boar is looking for with its "downward eye" (line 1106)?
(a) Its foes.
(b) Its prey.
(c) A grave.
(d) A bed.

5. How does Venus know that the dogs are barking at a boar, bear, or lion?
(a) She cannot hear the sound of anything running through the brush.
(b) The sound of their barking is stationary.
(c) She hears the excited cries of the hunters with the dogs.
(d) The dogs sound excited and frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose dismayed surprise does the speaker compare Venus's astonishment when Adonis leaves her?

2. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

3. What does Adonis tell Venus he primarily objects to about her professions of love?

4. What technique is used in line 1138, "Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end"?

5. What does Venus mean when she says, in lines 649 and 650, "For where love reigns, disturbing jealousy/ Doth call himself affection’s sentinel"?

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