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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 is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?
(a) Breath.
(b) Skin.
(c) Voice.
(d) Eyes.

2. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?
(a) Both of these extreme emotions are ridiculous and problematic for Venus, but she cannot help vacillating between them because she is in love.
(b) Because Venus does not know the outcome yet, it is best for her to focus on hope, because at least in the interim she has one last chance to be happy.
(c) Venus is making a spectacle of herself by wildly veering between hope and despair, and her lack of common sense implies that what she calls love is more likely lust.
(d) The fear of loss makes it almost impossible to hold on to hope, but part of being in love is allowing oneself to be vulnerable and take emotional risks.

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

4. What critique does the speaker offer of Venus's song?
(a) It is immodest.
(b) It is long and boring.
(c) It is out of tune.
(d) It exaggerates her feelings.

5. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Anthimeria.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?

4. To what does Venus compare her own lips when she says that Adonis's lips are "sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted" (line 511)?

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

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