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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. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will not tell anyone about it if he will have sex with her.
(b) She will let him explain his feelings if he speaks nicely to her.
(c) She will ask the gods to make him immortal if he will be her partner.
(d) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.

2. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Metaphor.

3. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Henry Wriothesley.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?

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

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

5. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?

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