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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 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paraprosdokian.
(d) Anadiplosis.

2. What technique is used in line 640, "They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Aphorism.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Paralepsis.

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

4. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Venus tell Adonis will be the cause of him tripping and falling?

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

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

4. What characteristic of the boar does Venus's description primarily stress?

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"?

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