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

2. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?
(a) The reversal of expected gender roles.
(b) The contrast between passion and virtue.
(c) The difference between lust and love.
(d) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.

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

4. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?
(a) With contempt.
(b) With compassion.
(c) With laughter.
(d) With desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?

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

3. To what does Venus compare her own lips when she says that Adonis's lips are "sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted" (line 511)?

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

5. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?

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