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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 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.

2. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?
(a) The horse is compared to an escaped slave.
(b) The horse is compared to an unruly child.
(c) The bit is compared to logic and reason.
(d) The bit is compared to an unjust law.

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

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

5. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?
(a) Moans.
(b) Winks.
(c) Shudders.
(d) Smiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

2. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?

3. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?

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

5. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

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