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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 motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?
(a) Flight.
(b) Justice.
(c) Water.
(d) Heat.

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) Polysyndeton.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Inversion.

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

4. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(b) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(c) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(d) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.

5. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?
(a) Venus's comparison of Adonis to Narcissus and her warning about Narcissus's fate.
(b) Venus trying to persuade Adonis by bragging about having conquered the god of war.
(c) The description of the silent struggle between Venus and Adonis as a "war" of looks.
(d) The comparison of the stallion's steamy breath to a fiery furnace of passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

2. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?

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

4. 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"?

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

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