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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 when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Personification.

2. What does Venus mean when she says, in lines 649 and 650, "For where love reigns, disturbing jealousy/ Doth call himself affection’s sentinel"?
(a) When a person is in love, jealousy sounds frequent alarms.
(b) Love is stronger than jealousy and can preserve affection against it.
(c) When a person is ruled by love, other relationships suffer.
(d) Love upsets jealousy because it considers affection more important.

3. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Epigram.

4. Which technique is used in line 219, "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

5. To what does Venus compare her own lips when she says that Adonis's lips are "sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted" (line 511)?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A stamp.
(c) Wax.
(d) Sand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of human does Venus compare the boar to?

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. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?

5. Toward the end of the passage, what does Venus say Adonis must do in order for her to release his hand?

(see the answer key)

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