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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 Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?
(a) With compassion.
(b) With desire.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With laughter.

2. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was like a broken-down cart horse.
(b) He was as still as a statue.
(c) He was beautiful but not useful.
(d) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.

3. What does Venus tell Adonis is usually unlike her?
(a) Fainting from fear.
(b) Physically restraining someone.
(c) Lecturing someone.
(d) Making a pass at a stranger.

4. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Pygmalion.
(b) Icarus.
(c) The Minotaur.
(d) Narcissus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

2. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?

3. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?

4. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?

5. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?

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