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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 colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Red and white.
(b) White and purple.
(c) Blue and red.
(d) Purple and blue.

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

4. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.
(b) She will let him explain his feelings if he speaks nicely to her.
(c) She will ask the gods to make him immortal if he will be her partner.
(d) She will not tell anyone about it if he will have sex with her.

5. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Mars.
(d) Mercury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?

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

3. What color is most prominent in the description of Venus kneeling before Adonis and putting her hand on his cheek?

4. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?

5. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?

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