View a FREE sample

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 characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?
(a) Comforting.
(b) Boastful.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Sexual.

2. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?
(a) Considers.
(b) Ruins.
(c) Angers.
(d) Ignores.

3. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?
(a) The dew on the flowers.
(b) Adonis's breath.
(c) Her own kisses.
(d) Adonis's tears.

4. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?
(a) Venus's lustful thoughts.
(b) Adonis's stallion's seduction of the mare.
(c) Cupid drawing his bow.
(d) The words Adonis intends to say.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Venus's main criticism of chastity?

2. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?

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

4. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

5. 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).

(see the answer key)

This section contains 387 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample