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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 technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Parallelism.

2. What is Venus's main criticism of chastity?
(a) It prevents her from getting what she wants.
(b) It is a needlessly joyless practice.
(c) It prevents people from having children.
(d) It shows ingratitude toward the gods.

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Elizabeth I.
(b) The Earl of Southampton.
(c) James I.
(d) Anne Hathaway.

4. What does Venus compare to an informer and a spy?
(a) Lust.
(b) Love.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Jealousy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?

3. What characteristic of the boar does Venus's description primarily stress?

4. 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"?

5. What does Venus tell Adonis will be the cause of him tripping and falling?

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