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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 compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) The sun.
(b) A stallion.
(c) A stag.
(d) A flower.

2. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

3. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?
(a) The stallion.
(b) Venus.
(c) The mare.
(d) Adonis.

4. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will not tell anyone about it if he will have sex with her.
(b) She will let him explain his feelings if he speaks nicely to her.
(c) She will ask the gods to make him immortal if he will be her partner.
(d) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.

5. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?

2. 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"?

3. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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