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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. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(b) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.
(c) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(d) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.

2. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Callousness.
(b) Impulsiveness.
(c) Violence.
(d) Immodesty.

3. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?
(a) Flight.
(b) Justice.
(c) Water.
(d) Heat.

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"?
(a) Alliteration and diacope.
(b) Metaphor and alliteration.
(c) Diacope and onomatopoeia.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.

5. 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 residue of her own tears.
(b) The beginnings of a mustache.
(c) Beads of sweat.
(d) The sickly green shade of his skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?

2. 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)?

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

4. When Venus shakes her head and then Adonis's hand, looks at him and then at the ground, what is it most reasonable to infer about her motivation?

5. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?

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