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

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

3. How does Adonis feel after Venus falls unconscious?
(a) Satisfied.
(b) Amused.
(c) Skeptical.
(d) Guilty.

4. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?
(a) She is unable to be truly happy about a conquest brought about through deception.
(b) She has come very close to paradise without being allowed to fully enjoy it.
(c) She is aware that she has dishonored her own status as a goddess and regrets her actions.
(d) She has taken a big risk and it has not paid off for her.

5. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?

2. 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)?

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

5. When Venus shakes her head and then Adonis's hand, looks at him and then at the ground, what is it most reasonable to infer about her motivation?

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