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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 is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) The beginnings of a mustache.
(b) Beads of sweat.
(c) The sickly green shade of his skin.
(d) The residue of her own tears.

2. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.
(b) He was as still as a statue.
(c) He was beautiful but not useful.
(d) He was like a broken-down cart horse.

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

4. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?
(a) Venus.
(b) Adonis.
(c) The mare.
(d) The stallion.

5. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?
(a) Venus agrees to let Adonis leave.
(b) The stallion returns to Adonis.
(c) Adonis kisses Venus.
(d) Helios feels jealous of Adonis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?

2. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?

3. 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"?

4. 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?

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

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