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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. Which is the best summary of the meaning conveyed by the stanza that describes Venus's competing feelings of hope and despair?
(a) 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.
(b) Both of these extreme emotions are ridiculous and problematic for Venus, but she cannot help vacillating between them because she is in love.
(c) 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.
(d) 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.

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

3. What does Venus tell Adonis will be the cause of him tripping and falling?
(a) It is dark and cloudy.
(b) One of the gods is jealous.
(c) Earth wants to kiss him.
(d) He is distracted by love.

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?
(a) She is attempting to distract Adonis from her real intentions.
(b) She is too shy to explain to Adonis exactly what she wants from him.
(c) She is too distraught to know how to proceed.
(d) She is having second thoughts about her confession of love.

5. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?
(a) She will not tell anyone about it if he will have sex with her.
(b) She will let him explain his feelings if he speaks nicely to her.
(c) She will get off of him if he gives her one voluntary kiss.
(d) She will ask the gods to make him immortal if he will be her partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the speaker compare Venus finally opening her eyes after her faint?

2. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?

3. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?

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

5. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?

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