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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 does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Immodesty.
(b) Violence.
(c) Impulsiveness.
(d) Callousness.

2. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?
(a) The reversal of expected gender roles.
(b) The contrast between passion and virtue.
(c) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.
(d) The difference between lust and love.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?

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

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