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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 techniques are used in lines 417 and 418, "If springing things be any jot diminish’d,/ They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth"?
(a) Personification and inversion.
(b) Simile and personification.
(c) Contraction and simile.
(d) Inversion and contraction.

2. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Pygmalion.
(b) The Minotaur.
(c) Icarus.
(d) Narcissus.

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) Helios feels jealous of Adonis.
(c) Venus agrees to let Adonis leave.
(d) Adonis kisses Venus.

4. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?
(a) The dew on the flowers.
(b) Her own kisses.
(c) Adonis's breath.
(d) Adonis's tears.

5. How does Adonis feel after Venus falls unconscious?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Amused.
(d) Satisfied.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?

2. Whom does Venus address as a "clear god" (line 860)?

3. What is the most logical definition of "tushes" in the context of line 617, "Whose tushes never sheath’d he whetteth still"?

4. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?

5. What technique is used in lines 1123 and 1124, "She looks upon his lips, and they are pale;/ She takes him by the hand, and that is cold"?

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