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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. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?
(a) Venus.
(b) The stallion.
(c) The mare.
(d) Adonis.

2. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Pygmalion.
(b) Narcissus.
(c) The Minotaur.
(d) Icarus.

3. 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?
(a) She is too shy to explain to Adonis exactly what she wants from him.
(b) She is having second thoughts about her confession of love.
(c) She is attempting to distract Adonis from her real intentions.
(d) She is too distraught to know how to proceed.

4. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

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

3. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?

4. 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"?

5. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

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