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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 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"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Paradox.

2. Which is the best definition of "bootless" in the context of line 422?
(a) Unmannerly, rude.
(b) Informal, casual.
(c) Useless, pointless.
(d) Irresponsible, careless.

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

4. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Personification.
(d) Euphemism.

5. What causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?
(a) She has a premonition of the words Adonis is about to speak.
(b) Adonis pushes her roughly away from him.
(c) She is overcome by the heat from the sun.
(d) Adonis tells her that he will never love her or even desire her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?

2. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?

3. What does the speaker compare to caves?

4. 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)?

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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