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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Venus compare to an informer and a spy?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Lust.
(c) Love.
(d) Jealousy.

2. Who is the "flap-mouth’d mourner" referred to in line 920?
(a) Venus.
(b) A hunter.
(c) The boar.
(d) A dog.

3. What is the best definition of "sepulchres" in line 622, "His snout digs sepulchres where’er he goes"?
(a) Furrows.
(b) Wounds.
(c) Graves.
(d) Trenches.

4. In the context of the comparison of Adonis's departure to the departure of a friend onboard ship, which of the following words functions as a pun?
(a) Contend.
(b) Fold.
(c) Merciless.
(d) Pitchy.

5. What does Venus say will die with Adonis?
(a) Love.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Death.

6. What does Venus tell Adonis is usually unlike her?
(a) Fainting from fear.
(b) Physically restraining someone.
(c) Making a pass at a stranger.
(d) Lecturing someone.

7. To what does Venus compare the fear of a person in love?
(a) The fear of a mother holding a newborn during a rising flood.
(b) The fear of a shepherd seeing his flock beset by wolves.
(c) The fear of a person carrying treasure who is surrounded by thieves.
(d) The fear of a monarch whose castle is besieged by enemies.

8. What techniques are used in lines 1015 and 1016, "“O love!” quoth she, “how much a fool was I,/ To be of such a weak and silly mind"?
(a) Apostrophe and inversion.
(b) Inversion and parallelism.
(c) Euphemism and apostrophe.
(d) Parallelism and euphemism.

9. Which technique is used in line 1151, "It shall be raging mad, and silly mild"?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Oxymoron.

10. 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) Assonance.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Euphony.
(d) Alliteration.

11. When Venus "sings extemporally a woeful ditty," what is the best definition for "extemporally" in this context (line 836)?
(a) At great length.
(b) Without preparation or prior thought.
(c) With self-pity that is almost comical.
(d) Displaying great emotion.

12. What critique does the speaker offer of Venus's song?
(a) It is out of tune.
(b) It exaggerates her feelings.
(c) It is long and boring.
(d) It is immodest.

13. Whom does Venus address as a "clear god" (line 860)?
(a) The wind.
(b) The sun.
(c) The sky.
(d) The morning.

14. What is Venus saying when she asks the world "what canst thou boast/ Of things long since, or anything ensuing" (lines 1077 and 1078)?
(a) The relationship between the past and the present is not as clear as people pretend.
(b) The world is a cruel place that does not allow love to grow naturally.
(c) The world has no right to brag about itself if it would allow Adonis to die.
(d) Any time before Adonis's birth or after his death is worthless.

15. For what reason does Venus suggest the sun and wind took pity on Adonis's tears?
(a) Because of his beauty.
(b) Because of his morality.
(c) Because of his kindness.
(d) Because of his youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?

2. What technique is used in line 640, "They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends"?

3. In line 1043, what is the speaker comparing to "a king perplexed in his throne"?

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

5. What technique is used in lines 819 and 820, "Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,/ Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend"?

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