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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 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) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Personification.
(d) Symbolism.

2. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?
(a) To have sex and beget children.
(b) To enjoy youth while it lasts.
(c) To obey the will of a goddess.
(d) To accept the admiration his great beauty causes.

3. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?
(a) Alliteration and assonance.
(b) Metonymy and alliteration.
(c) Assonance and onomatopoeia.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metonymy.

4. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?
(a) A fenced area.
(b) A small barn.
(c) A valley.
(d) A stand of trees.

5. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Immodesty.
(b) Impulsiveness.
(c) Violence.
(d) Callousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?

2. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

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

4. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?

5. What does the speaker compare to caves?

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