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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 is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?
(a) A fox.
(b) A bird.
(c) A horse.
(d) A flower.

2. What techniques are used in lines 417 and 418, "If springing things be any jot diminish’d,/ They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth"?
(a) Personification and inversion.
(b) Simile and personification.
(c) Contraction and simile.
(d) Inversion and contraction.

3. What does Venus tell Adonis is usually unlike her?
(a) Physically restraining someone.
(b) Making a pass at a stranger.
(c) Fainting from fear.
(d) Lecturing someone.

4. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?
(a) The bit is compared to logic and reason.
(b) The horse is compared to an unruly child.
(c) The horse is compared to an escaped slave.
(d) The bit is compared to an unjust law.

5. 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) Both of these extreme emotions are ridiculous and problematic for Venus, but she cannot help vacillating between them because she is in love.
(c) 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.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What critique does the speaker offer of Venus's song?

4. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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