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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Venus tell Adonis will be the cause of him tripping and falling?
2. What is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?
3. In line 1032, whose eyes does the speaker compare to "stars asham’d of day"?
4. Where does Venus go first thing in the morning?
5. To what does Venus compare the fear of a person in love?
Short Essay Questions
1. After Adonis's death, what does Venus predict about love?
2. Describe the details of Venus's vision of Adonis and the boar.
3. How does Venus contrast the behavior of fish and birds with the behavior of the boar?
4. What is the meaning of Venus's comments about veils and bonnets after Adonis's death?
5. What conclusion does Venus reach about why the boar killed Adonis, and what does this cause her to reflect about her own behavior?
6. What happens to Venus's eyes when she first sees Adonis's dead body?
7. What is conveyed by the personification and the simile in the passage where Venus runs through the brush toward the sounds of Adonis's hunting party?
8. What does Venus say about death when she thinks that Adonis has died?
9. How does Adonis contrast love and lust?
10. What trick do Venus's eyes play on her after she has been looking at Adonis's body for a few minutes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the theme of Venus and Adonis? What is the poem saying about lust, love, power, virtue, and mortality? Consider symbolism, the speaker's tone, the characterizations of both Venus and Adonis, the action of the poem, and the choices Shakespeare made in adapting the original story to his own uses as you craft your position on the meaning of this poem. Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the theme of Venus and Adonis. Support your arguments with both quoted and paraphrased evidence drawn from throughout the poem, and be sure to cite any quoted language in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Does the portrait of Venus in Venus and Adonis tend more to support or undercut traditional Elizabethan gender norms? Write an essay in which you consider both the characterization of Venus and the outcomes of her choices as you make an argument about what this poem is saying about the proper behavior of women. Support your argument with evidence drawn from the poem's language and plot details, and be sure to cite any quoted evidence in MLA format. If you choose to support your argument with information drawn from outside sources, be sure to cite these in MLA format as well.
Essay Topic 3
Venus's apostrophes to death are not the only apostrophes in the poem. Where else is this technique used in the poem? What impact do the apostrophes have on tone? How is the use of apostrophe related to the way that Helios, Mars, Diana, and other figures are referred to, as if they are nearby but not directly interacting with Venus or Adonis? Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the larger purpose of the poem's apostrophes. Support your arguments with both quoted and paraphrased evidence drawn from throughout the poem, and be sure to cite any quoted language in MLA format.
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