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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 causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?
(a) Adonis pushes her roughly away from him.
(b) She has a premonition of the words Adonis is about to speak.
(c) Adonis tells her that he will never love her or even desire her.
(d) She is overcome by the heat from the sun.

2. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?
(a) Antistrophe.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Inversion.
(d) Alliteration.

3. What does Venus refer to as "ugly, meagre, lean"?
(a) Love.
(b) Life.
(c) Lust.
(d) Death.

4. To what does the speaker compare Venus finally opening her eyes after her faint?
(a) A flower blooming.
(b) Lightning.
(c) A leaf unfurling.
(d) The sunrise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"

2. Which techniques are used in line 838, "love is wise in folly foolish witty"?

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

4. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

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

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