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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. In line 868, "She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn," which technique best conveys Venus's straining to hear a quiet, far-off sound?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Tone.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Diction.

2. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Epigram.

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

4. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) The beginnings of a mustache.
(b) The residue of her own tears.
(c) Beads of sweat.
(d) The sickly green shade of his skin.

5. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?
(a) The words Adonis intends to say.
(b) Adonis's stallion's seduction of the mare.
(c) Cupid drawing his bow.
(d) Venus's lustful thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "bootless" in the context of line 422?

2. According to the speaker, what is the one thing that the horse lacks?

3. What is the most logical definition of "tushes" in the context of line 617, "Whose tushes never sheath’d he whetteth still"?

4. Why does Venus ask Adonis whether he saw her grow pale and tremble when he mentioned hunting boar?

5. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

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