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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 line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Antithesis.

2. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?
(a) The contrast between passion and virtue.
(b) The difference between lust and love.
(c) Adonis's unnatural lack of desire.
(d) The reversal of expected gender roles.

3. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?
(a) The stallion returns to Adonis.
(b) Adonis kisses Venus.
(c) Helios feels jealous of Adonis.
(d) Venus agrees to let Adonis leave.

4. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Anthimeria.
(d) Antithesis.

5. To whose dismayed surprise does the speaker compare Venus's astonishment when Adonis leaves her?
(a) Someone whose lamp blows out when they are walking in the woods at night.
(b) Someone who is accidentally struck by a careless hunter's arrow.
(c) Someone who is walking across unknown terrain and falls into a bog of quicksand.
(d) Someone whose pampered pet suddenly slips outside and runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?

2. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?

3. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

4. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?

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

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