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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 "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)?
(a) A ring of flowers.
(b) The field.
(c) Her arms.
(d) Her heart.

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

3. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Inversion.
(d) Malapropism.

4. 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 incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.
(b) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.
(c) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.
(d) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?

3. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?

4. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?

5. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

(see the answer key)

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