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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Lines 217-408.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 beginnings of a mustache.
(d) The sickly green shade of his skin.

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

3. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?
(a) Pick flowers.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Nap.
(d) Eat lunch.

4. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Inversion.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Polysyndeton.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which technique is used in lines 221 and 222, "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak/ And now her sobs do her intendments break"?

4. According to the speaker, what is the one thing that the horse lacks?

5. When Venus shakes her head and then Adonis's hand, looks at him and then at the ground, what is it most reasonable to infer about her motivation?

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