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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. In line 1032, whose eyes does the speaker compare to "stars asham’d of day"?
(a) Venus's.
(b) The boar's.
(c) Love's.
(d) Adonis's.

2. Which techniques are used in line 838, "love is wise in folly foolish witty"?
(a) Anthimeria, oxymoron, and paradox.
(b) Analogy, paradox, and anthimeria.
(c) Paradox, oxymoron, and chiasmus.
(d) Chiasmus, anthimeria, and analogy.

3. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) The beginnings of a mustache.
(b) Beads of sweat.
(c) The sickly green shade of his skin.
(d) The residue of her own tears.

4. Who is the "flap-mouth’d mourner" referred to in line 920?
(a) A hunter.
(b) The boar.
(c) A dog.
(d) Venus.

5. What is the best definition of "sepulchres" in line 622, "His snout digs sepulchres where’er he goes"?
(a) Graves.
(b) Trenches.
(c) Furrows.
(d) Wounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?

2. In the conceit that Venus concludes her speech with near the end of the poem, what two things are compared?

3. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?

4. What technique is used in line 1138, "Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end"?

5. What technique is used in line 1141, "It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud"?

(see the answer key)

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