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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 does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?
(a) His own purity.
(b) A boar.
(c) His horse.
(d) His religious faith.

2. 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"?
(a) Sore.
(b) Dismay'd.
(c) Cheering.
(d) Senses.

3. What does Venus refer to as "ugly, meagre, lean"?
(a) Lust.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

4. What technique is used in line 431, "Melodious discord, heavenly tune, harsh-sounding"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Paradox.

5. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anthimeria.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Anadiplosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 815 and 816, "Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky,/ So glides he in the night from Venus’ eye"?

2. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?

3. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?

4. In line 868, "She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn," which technique best conveys Venus's straining to hear a quiet, far-off sound?

5. What does line 972 compare to "many clouds consulting for foul weather"?

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