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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. How does Venus know that the dogs are barking at a boar, bear, or lion?
(a) The sound of their barking is stationary.
(b) She hears the excited cries of the hunters with the dogs.
(c) The dogs sound excited and frightened.
(d) She cannot hear the sound of anything running through the brush.

2. What techniques are used in lines 417 and 418, "If springing things be any jot diminish’d,/ They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth"?
(a) Contraction and simile.
(b) Personification and inversion.
(c) Simile and personification.
(d) Inversion and contraction.

3. What technique is used in lines 693 and 694, "Ceasing their clamorous cry, till they have singled/ With much ado the cold fault cleanly out"?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Euphony.

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?"
(a) Personification.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Symbolism.

5. In lines 896 and 897, "Till cheering up her senses sore dismay’d,/ She tells them ’tis a causeless fantasy," what is the antecedent of "them"?
(a) Cheering.
(b) Sore.
(c) Senses.
(d) Dismay'd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus compare to an informer and a spy?

2. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?

3. What technique is used in line 640, "They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends"?

4. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

5. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?

(see the answer key)

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