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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 does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).
(a) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.
(b) Her tears and flattery are incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.
(c) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(d) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.

2. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Metonymy.

3. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?
(a) A ring of flowers.
(b) Her arms.
(c) The field.
(d) Her heart.

4. What type of human does Venus compare the boar to?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A hangman.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A thief.

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)?
(a) Comforting.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Boastful.
(d) Sarcastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's motives as she describes hunting a rabbit?

2. How does the speaker characterize Venus's lapse into unconsciousness?

3. Who is the "flap-mouth’d mourner" referred to in line 920?

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

5. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?

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