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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Lines 1-216.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Narcissus.
(d) The Minotaur.

2. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?
(a) Adonis's breath.
(b) Her own kisses.
(c) Adonis's tears.
(d) The dew on the flowers.

3. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Mars.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Mercury.

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 sickly green shade of his skin.
(b) The residue of her own tears.
(c) The beginnings of a mustache.
(d) Beads of sweat.

5. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Red and white.
(b) White and purple.
(c) Purple and blue.
(d) Blue and red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?

2. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

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

4. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?

5. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

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