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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Antistrophe.

3. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?
(a) Nap.
(b) Eat lunch.
(c) Pick flowers.
(d) Hunt.

4. What is the most reasonable interpretation of what Venus means when she asks "Where did I leave?” and Adonis replies “No matter where" (line 715)?
(a) She is asking what she was saying before her train of thought was interrupted.
(b) She is asking where Adonis intends to go once he leaves her that evening.
(c) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.
(d) She is asking Adonis to explain what he means when he accuses her of wanting to leave.

5. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?
(a) She is unable to be truly happy about a conquest brought about through deception.
(b) She is aware that she has dishonored her own status as a goddess and regrets her actions.
(c) She has come very close to paradise without being allowed to fully enjoy it.
(d) She has taken a big risk and it has not paid off for her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?

3. What does line 972 compare to "many clouds consulting for foul weather"?

4. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

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

(see the answer key)

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