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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. When Venus and Adonis are on the ground kissing in lines 547-558, what is Venus being compared to?
(a) A predatory wild animal.
(b) A greedy child at the table.
(c) A soldier on the field of battle.
(d) A destructive storm at sea.

2. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will let him explain his feelings if he speaks nicely to her.
(b) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.
(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.

3. Toward the end of the passage, what does Venus say Adonis must do in order for her to release his hand?
(a) Promise not to leave.
(b) Kiss her willingly.
(c) Admit that he desires her.
(d) Give back her heart.

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

5. 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?"
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?

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

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

4. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's characterization of Adonis as having a "mermaid's voice" (line 429)?

5. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

(see the answer key)

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