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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. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(b) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.
(c) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(d) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.

2. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Anaphora.

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

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

5. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?
(a) To accept the admiration his great beauty causes.
(b) To obey the will of a goddess.
(c) To enjoy youth while it lasts.
(d) To have sex and beget children.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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"?

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

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

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