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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. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.
(b) She will let him explain his feelings if he speaks nicely to her.
(c) She will not tell anyone about it if he will have sex with her.
(d) She will ask the gods to make him immortal if he will be her partner.

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

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

4. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?
(a) Assonance and onomatopoeia.
(b) Metonymy and alliteration.
(c) Alliteration and assonance.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metonymy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?

3. How does Adonis feel after Venus falls unconscious?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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