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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 Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?
(a) The dew on the flowers.
(b) Adonis's breath.
(c) Her own kisses.
(d) Adonis's tears.

2. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?
(a) Cupid drawing his bow.
(b) Adonis's stallion's seduction of the mare.
(c) Venus's lustful thoughts.
(d) The words Adonis intends to say.

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

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) The Earl of Southampton.
(b) James I.
(c) Elizabeth I.
(d) Anne Hathaway.

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 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Venus and Adonis are on the ground kissing in lines 547-558, what is Venus being compared to?

2. What techniques are used in lines 417 and 418, "If springing things be any jot diminish’d,/ They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth"?

3. What is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?

4. How does the speaker characterize Venus's lapse into unconsciousness?

5. 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"?

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