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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 629 and 630, "The thorny brambles and embracing bushes/ As fearful of him, part"?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

2. Why does Venus ask Adonis whether he saw her grow pale and tremble when he mentioned hunting boar?
(a) She hopes he will feel sympathy for her.
(b) She considers this evidence that she is not lying about her fear.
(c) She is stressing that she knows what she is talking about.
(d) She hopes he will be aroused by her display of feminine "weakness."

3. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?
(a) The fear of loss makes it almost impossible to hold on to hope, but part of being in love is allowing oneself to be vulnerable and take emotional risks.
(b) Venus is making a spectacle of herself by wildly veering between hope and despair, and her lack of common sense implies that what she calls love is more likely lust.
(c) Both of these extreme emotions are ridiculous and problematic for Venus, but she cannot help vacillating between them because she is in love.
(d) Because Venus does not know the outcome yet, it is best for her to focus on hope, because at least in the interim she has one last chance to be happy.

4. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?
(a) Heat.
(b) Justice.
(c) Water.
(d) Flight.

5. 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) Her arms.
(b) Her heart.
(c) A ring of flowers.
(d) The field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "bootless" in the context of line 422?

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

3. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?

4. According to the speaker, what is the one thing that the horse lacks?

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).

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