View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Personification.
(c) Anthimeria.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

2. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?
(a) Assonance and onomatopoeia.
(b) Metonymy and alliteration.
(c) Onomatopoeia and metonymy.
(d) Alliteration and assonance.

3. What is the most reasonable interpretation of what Venus means when she asks "Where did I leave?” and Adonis replies “No matter where" (line 715)?
(a) She is asking where Adonis intends to go once he leaves her that evening.
(b) She is asking what she was saying before her train of thought was interrupted.
(c) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.
(d) She is asking Adonis to explain what he means when he accuses her of wanting to leave.

4. To whose dismayed surprise does the speaker compare Venus's astonishment when Adonis leaves her?
(a) Someone who is walking across unknown terrain and falls into a bog of quicksand.
(b) Someone whose pampered pet suddenly slips outside and runs away.
(c) Someone whose lamp blows out when they are walking in the woods at night.
(d) Someone who is accidentally struck by a careless hunter's arrow.

5. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?
(a) Venus's comparison of Adonis to Narcissus and her warning about Narcissus's fate.
(b) The description of the silent struggle between Venus and Adonis as a "war" of looks.
(c) The comparison of the stallion's steamy breath to a fiery furnace of passion.
(d) Venus trying to persuade Adonis by bragging about having conquered the god of war.

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. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?

3. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?

4. 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?

5. Where does Venus go first thing in the morning?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 471 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample