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

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

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

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

5. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?
(a) Antistrophe.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Inversion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?

3. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?

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

5. To whom is the poem dedicated?

(see the answer key)

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