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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 is the author of the poem's epigraph?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Henry Wriothesley.
(d) Euripides.

2. 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.

3. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was as still as a statue.
(b) He was like a broken-down cart horse.
(c) He was beautiful but not useful.
(d) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.

4. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Polyptoton.
(d) Epimone.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?

3. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?

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?"

5. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

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