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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. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Elizabeth I.
(b) The Earl of Southampton.
(c) James I.
(d) Anne Hathaway.

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

3. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) A swimmer.
(b) A fish.
(c) A duck.
(d) An osprey.

4. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?
(a) Alliteration and assonance.
(b) Metonymy and alliteration.
(c) Assonance and onomatopoeia.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metonymy.

5. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Epizeuxis.
(c) Polyptoton.
(d) Epimone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?

2. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?

3. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?

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

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

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