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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?

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

3. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?

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

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

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