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

2. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?
(a) Hunt.
(b) Pick flowers.
(c) Eat lunch.
(d) Nap.

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

4. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Parallelism.

5. 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"?
(a) Alliteration and diacope.
(b) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(c) Diacope and onomatopoeia.
(d) Metaphor and alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

3. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?

4. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

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

(see the answer key)

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