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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Lines 613-810.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(b) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(c) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(d) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.

2. 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.

3. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Red and white.
(b) Blue and red.
(c) Purple and blue.
(d) White and purple.

4. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Antistrophe.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anadiplosis.

5. To what does the speaker compare Venus finally opening her eyes after her faint?
(a) A leaf unfurling.
(b) Lightning.
(c) The sunrise.
(d) A flower blooming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?

2. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?

3. What is the best definition of "sepulchres" in line 622, "His snout digs sepulchres where’er he goes"?

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

5. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?

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