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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. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?
(a) With compassion.
(b) With desire.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With laughter.

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

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

4. 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"?
(a) The night.
(b) Birds.
(c) Caves.
(d) Bugs.

5. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?
(a) Considers.
(b) Ruins.
(c) Angers.
(d) Ignores.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the speaker characterize Venus's lapse into unconsciousness?

2. What does Venus refer to as "ugly, meagre, lean"?

3. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?

4. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?

5. What techniques are used in lines 417 and 418, "If springing things be any jot diminish’d,/ They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth"?

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