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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 causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?
(a) She is overcome by the heat from the sun.
(b) Adonis tells her that he will never love her or even desire her.
(c) Adonis pushes her roughly away from him.
(d) She has a premonition of the words Adonis is about to speak.

2. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Metaphor.

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

4. What technique is used in line 431, "Melodious discord, heavenly tune, harsh-sounding"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Anaphora.

5. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?

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

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

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

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

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