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

2. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?
(a) Cupid drawing his bow.
(b) Venus's lustful thoughts.
(c) The words Adonis intends to say.
(d) Adonis's stallion's seduction of the mare.

3. 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.

4. What is Venus's main criticism of chastity?
(a) It is a needlessly joyless practice.
(b) It prevents people from having children.
(c) It prevents her from getting what she wants.
(d) It shows ingratitude toward the gods.

5. 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) Her heart.
(c) A ring of flowers.
(d) The field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's motives as she describes hunting a rabbit?

2. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?

3. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?

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

5. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?

(see the answer key)

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