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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. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(b) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.
(c) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(d) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.

2. 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 too shy to explain to Adonis exactly what she wants from him.
(b) She is too distraught to know how to proceed.
(c) She is having second thoughts about her confession of love.
(d) She is attempting to distract Adonis from her real intentions.

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

4. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Icarus.
(b) Narcissus.
(c) Pygmalion.
(d) The Minotaur.

5. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Paraprosdokian.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

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

3. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?

4. 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)?

5. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?

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