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

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

3. What does the speaker compare to caves?
(a) Venus's arguments.
(b) Venus's eyes.
(c) Adonis's dimples.
(d) Adonis's heart and mind.

4. 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) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) A swimmer.
(b) An osprey.
(c) A duck.
(d) A fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?

5. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

(see the answer key)

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