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

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

3. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?
(a) A bird.
(b) A horse.
(c) A flower.
(d) A fox.

4. 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 contrast between passion and virtue.
(b) The reversal of expected gender roles.
(c) The difference between lust and love.
(d) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.

5. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Personification.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?

4. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?

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

(see the answer key)

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