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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 color is most prominent in the description of Venus kneeling before Adonis and putting her hand on his cheek?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

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

3. Why does Venus ask Adonis whether he saw her grow pale and tremble when he mentioned hunting boar?
(a) She considers this evidence that she is not lying about her fear.
(b) She is stressing that she knows what she is talking about.
(c) She hopes he will be aroused by her display of feminine "weakness."
(d) She hopes he will feel sympathy for her.

4. Which technique is used in lines 221 and 222, "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak/ And now her sobs do her intendments break"?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Paralepsis.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anaphora.

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"?
(a) Personification and inversion.
(b) Simile and personification.
(c) Contraction and simile.
(d) Inversion and contraction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?

2. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?

3. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?

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

5. What does Venus tell Adonis is usually unlike her?

(see the answer key)

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