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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 Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?
(a) Adonis's tears.
(b) Adonis's breath.
(c) Her own kisses.
(d) The dew on the flowers.

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

3. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.
(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 ask the gods to make him immortal if he will be her partner.

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

5. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the poem dedicated?

2. Toward the end of the passage, what does Venus say Adonis must do in order for her to release his hand?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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