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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 motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?
(a) Justice.
(b) Flight.
(c) Heat.
(d) Water.

2. What technique is used in lines 629 and 630, "The thorny brambles and embracing bushes/ As fearful of him, part"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Personification.

3. In the context of the comparison of Adonis's departure to the departure of a friend onboard ship, which of the following words functions as a pun?
(a) Contend.
(b) Pitchy.
(c) Fold.
(d) Merciless.

4. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Anthimeria.
(c) Personification.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

5. 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 Adonis to explain what he means when he accuses her of wanting to leave.
(d) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whose dismayed surprise does the speaker compare Venus's astonishment when Adonis leaves her?

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

4. Where does Venus go first thing in the morning?

5. Who is the "flap-mouth’d mourner" referred to in line 920?

(see the answer key)

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