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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 does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Impulsiveness.
(b) Violence.
(c) Callousness.
(d) Immodesty.

2. What does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).
(a) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.
(b) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(c) Her tears and flattery are incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.
(d) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.

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

4. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Epigram.
(d) Euphemism.

5. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) A flower.
(b) The sun.
(c) A stag.
(d) A stallion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?

2. What does the speaker compare to caves?

3. Which is the best definition of "even" in Venus's question "What hour is this? or morn or weary even" (line 495)?

4. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

5. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?

(see the answer key)

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