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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 is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?
(a) Angers.
(b) Considers.
(c) Ruins.
(d) Ignores.

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

3. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Antistrophe.

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

5. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Icarus.
(b) The Minotaur.
(c) Pygmalion.
(d) Narcissus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

2. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"

3. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?

4. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

5. What color is most prominent in the description of Venus kneeling before Adonis and putting her hand on his cheek?

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