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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Lines 613-810.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?
(a) Comforting.
(b) Boastful.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Sarcastic.

2. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Antistrophe.
(d) Anadiplosis.

3. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?
(a) Venus trying to persuade Adonis by bragging about having conquered the god of war.
(b) The description of the silent struggle between Venus and Adonis as a "war" of looks.
(c) Venus's comparison of Adonis to Narcissus and her warning about Narcissus's fate.
(d) The comparison of the stallion's steamy breath to a fiery furnace of passion.

4. What is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?
(a) Voice.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Breath.
(d) Skin.

5. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.
(b) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(c) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(d) Venus's thoughts are evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?

2. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. 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"?

5. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?

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