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

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

3. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) A fish.
(b) A duck.
(c) A swimmer.
(d) An osprey.

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

5. 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)?
(a) Her heart.
(b) The field.
(c) A ring of flowers.
(d) Her arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?

2. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?

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. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

5. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?

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