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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 technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Personification.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

3. 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 sickly green shade of his skin.
(b) The beginnings of a mustache.
(c) The residue of her own tears.
(d) Beads of sweat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?

2. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

3. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?

4. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?

5. 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"?

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