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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. 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.

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

3. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Malapropism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Inversion.

4. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Anthimeria.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Asyndeton.

5. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?
(a) Moans.
(b) Winks.
(c) Shudders.
(d) Smiles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

5. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

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