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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) Her heart.
(c) The field.
(d) Her arms.

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

3. 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)?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Sand.
(c) Wax.
(d) A stamp.

4. 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"?
(a) Personification and inversion.
(b) Inversion and contraction.
(c) Contraction and simile.
(d) Simile and personification.

5. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.
(b) He was beautiful but not useful.
(c) He was as still as a statue.
(d) He was like a broken-down cart horse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?

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

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).

5. What causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?

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