Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Lines 1009-1194.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Venus say the boar is looking for with its "downward eye" (line 1106)?
(a) A grave.
(b) Its foes.
(c) A bed.
(d) Its prey.

2. What is the most reasonable interpretation of what Venus means when she asks "Where did I leave?” and Adonis replies “No matter where" (line 715)?
(a) She is asking what she was saying before her train of thought was interrupted.
(b) She is asking Adonis to explain what he means when he accuses her of wanting to leave.
(c) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.
(d) She is asking where Adonis intends to go once he leaves her that evening.

3. What does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).
(a) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.
(b) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(c) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.
(d) Her tears and flattery are incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.

4. What technique is used in lines 815 and 816, "Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky,/ So glides he in the night from Venus’ eye"?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Simile.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Personification.

5. When Adonis tells Venus "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart," what metaphor used earlier in the poem does this recall (line 423)?
(a) The description of the silent struggle between Venus and Adonis as a "war" of looks.
(b) Venus trying to persuade Adonis by bragging about having conquered the god of war.
(c) Venus's comparison of Adonis to Narcissus and her warning about Narcissus's fate.
(d) The comparison of the stallion's steamy breath to a fiery furnace of passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?

2. To what does Venus compare the fear of a person in love?

3. What technique is used in lines 819 and 820, "Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,/ Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend"?

4. What technique is used in line 640, "They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends"?

5. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?

(see the answer key)

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