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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) James I.
(b) Elizabeth I.
(c) Anne Hathaway.
(d) The Earl of Southampton.

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

3. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) A stallion.
(b) The sun.
(c) A flower.
(d) A stag.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?

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

3. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?

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

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

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