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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Antithesis.

2. What colors are emphasized in the description of morning?
(a) Silver and gold.
(b) Yellow and orange.
(c) Blue and green.
(d) Red and white.

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

4. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?
(a) Both of these extreme emotions are ridiculous and problematic for Venus, but she cannot help vacillating between them because she is in love.
(b) 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.
(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) 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.

5. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?
(a) Metaphor and alliteration.
(b) Diacope and onomatopoeia.
(c) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(d) Alliteration and diacope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is making the sounds referred to in lines 847 and 848, "For who hath she to spend the night withal,/ But idle sounds resembling parasites"?

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

3. What critique does the speaker offer of Venus's song?

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

5. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?

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