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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. What is the most reasonable interpretation of what Venus means when she asks "Where did I leave?” and Adonis replies “No matter where" (line 715)?
(a) She is asking where Adonis intends to go once he leaves her that evening.
(b) She is asking Adonis to explain what he means when he accuses her of wanting to leave.
(c) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.
(d) She is asking what she was saying before her train of thought was interrupted.

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

3. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) The sickly green shade of his skin.
(b) The residue of her own tears.
(c) Beads of sweat.
(d) The beginnings of a mustache.

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

5. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Epigram.
(d) Cacophony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "bootless" in the context of line 422?

2. What does Venus mean when she says, in lines 649 and 650, "For where love reigns, disturbing jealousy/ Doth call himself affection’s sentinel"?

3. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?

4. How does Adonis feel after Venus falls unconscious?

5. What is Venus's main criticism of chastity?

(see the answer key)

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