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

2. What causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?
(a) Adonis pushes her roughly away from him.
(b) She has a premonition of the words Adonis is about to speak.
(c) She is overcome by the heat from the sun.
(d) Adonis tells her that he will never love her or even desire her.

3. To what does Venus compare her own lips when she says that Adonis's lips are "sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted" (line 511)?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A stamp.
(c) Sand.
(d) Wax.

4. Which is the best definition of "even" in Venus's question "What hour is this? or morn or weary even" (line 495)?
(a) Level.
(b) At the same time.
(c) Equal.
(d) Evening.

5. To whose dismayed surprise does the speaker compare Venus's astonishment when Adonis leaves her?
(a) Someone whose lamp blows out when they are walking in the woods at night.
(b) Someone whose pampered pet suddenly slips outside and runs away.
(c) Someone who is walking across unknown terrain and falls into a bog of quicksand.
(d) Someone who is accidentally struck by a careless hunter's arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 896 and 897, "Till cheering up her senses sore dismay’d,/ She tells them ’tis a causeless fantasy," what is the antecedent of "them"?

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

3. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?

4. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?

5. 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?

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