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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Lines 409-612.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Paradox.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Parallelism.

2. Which is the best definition of "bootless" in the context of line 422?
(a) Informal, casual.
(b) Useless, pointless.
(c) Irresponsible, careless.
(d) Unmannerly, rude.

3. 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) Boastful.
(b) Comforting.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Sarcastic.

4. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Antithesis.

5. 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?
(a) She is too shy to explain to Adonis exactly what she wants from him.
(b) She is having second thoughts about her confession of love.
(c) She is too distraught to know how to proceed.
(d) She is attempting to distract Adonis from her real intentions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?

3. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?

4. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?

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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