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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. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?
(a) They stress that all three yield delicious meat and useful skins.
(b) They stress the timid and retiring nature of these animals.
(c) They stress how numerous and easily spotted these creatures are.
(d) They stress how fast and clever these animals are.

2. What technique is used in lines 647 and 648, "My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,/ But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast"?
(a) Malapropism.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Simile.
(d) Euphony.

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

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

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 type of human does Venus compare the boar to?

2. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?

3. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?

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

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

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