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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 does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?
(a) His own purity.
(b) A boar.
(c) His religious faith.
(d) His horse.

2. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) A duck.
(b) An osprey.
(c) A swimmer.
(d) A fish.

3. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's characterization of Adonis as having a "mermaid's voice" (line 429)?
(a) She is alluding to the mythological sirens.
(b) She is comparing his voice to the sound of the ocean.
(c) She is warning him that his voice can be snatched away.
(d) She is dismissing his perspective as too feminine.

4. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?
(a) Her arms.
(b) A ring of flowers.
(c) Her heart.
(d) The field.

5. What is the most logical definition of "tushes" in the context of line 617, "Whose tushes never sheath’d he whetteth still"?
(a) Tusks.
(b) Touches.
(c) Knives.
(d) Hooves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the best definition of "even" in Venus's question "What hour is this? or morn or weary even" (line 495)?

3. 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)?

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 does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?

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