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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. Whom does Venus address as a "clear god" (line 860)?
(a) The sky.
(b) The morning.
(c) The sun.
(d) The wind.

2. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Antistrophe.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Parallelism.

3. 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) Boastful.
(b) Comforting.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Sexual.

4. In lines 896 and 897, "Till cheering up her senses sore dismay’d,/ She tells them ’tis a causeless fantasy," what is the antecedent of "them"?
(a) Sore.
(b) Dismay'd.
(c) Senses.
(d) Cheering.

5. What does Venus refer to as "ugly, meagre, lean"?
(a) Lust.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?

2. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?

3. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

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

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

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