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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 Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?
(a) Nap.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Eat lunch.
(d) Pick flowers.

2. 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.

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) Beads of sweat.
(c) The residue of her own tears.
(d) The beginnings of a mustache.

4. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Pygmalion.
(b) Narcissus.
(c) Icarus.
(d) The Minotaur.

5. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Epigram.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adonis view romantic love?

2. What characteristic of the boar does Venus's description primarily stress?

3. What does Venus compare to an informer and a spy?

4. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?

5. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?

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