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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 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?

2. 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"?

3. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?

4. When Venus shakes her head and then Adonis's hand, looks at him and then at the ground, what is it most reasonable to infer about her motivation?

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?"

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