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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. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Henry Wriothesley.
(d) Ovid.

2. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?
(a) With desire.
(b) With contempt.
(c) With laughter.
(d) With compassion.

3. 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) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.
(c) The reversal of expected gender roles.
(d) The difference between lust and love.

4. 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)?
(a) Comforting.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Boastful.
(d) Sarcastic.

5. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.
(b) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(c) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(d) Venus's thoughts are evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is most prominent in the description of Venus kneeling before Adonis and putting her hand on his cheek?

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 does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

4. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?

5. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?

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