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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 does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).
(a) Her tears and flattery are incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.
(b) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(c) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.
(d) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.

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"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Malapropism.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Inversion.

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

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

5. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?
(a) Mars.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Mercury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used in lines 221 and 222, "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak/ And now her sobs do her intendments break"?

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. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?

4. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?

5. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's characterization of Adonis as having a "mermaid's voice" (line 429)?

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