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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Lines 217-408.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?
(a) Shudders.
(b) Winks.
(c) Smiles.
(d) Moans.

2. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

3. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Malapropism.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Inversion.

4. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?
(a) Angers.
(b) Ruins.
(c) Considers.
(d) Ignores.

5. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?
(a) A fox.
(b) A flower.
(c) A bird.
(d) A horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?

2. 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"?

3. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

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

5. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?

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