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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Blue and red.
(b) White and purple.
(c) Purple and blue.
(d) Red and white.

2. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?
(a) Her arms.
(b) Her heart.
(c) A ring of flowers.
(d) The field.

3. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Epigram.

4. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?
(a) His horse.
(b) A boar.
(c) His religious faith.
(d) His own purity.

5. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?
(a) The bit is compared to an unjust law.
(b) The horse is compared to an unruly child.
(c) The horse is compared to an escaped slave.
(d) The bit is compared to logic and reason.

6. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Inversion.

7. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was as still as a statue.
(b) He was beautiful but not useful.
(c) He was like a broken-down cart horse.
(d) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.

8. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Anaphora.

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

10. What technique is used in lines 432 and 433, "my ears would love/ That inward beauty and invisible"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Anthimeria.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

11. 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"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Parallelism.

12. How does Adonis view romantic love?
(a) He thinks it is frightening and dangerous.
(b) He thinks it is chaotic and burdensome,
(c) He thinks it elevates a person spiritually.
(d) He thinks it should be reserved for marriage.

13. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) A flower.
(b) The sun.
(c) A stag.
(d) A stallion.

14. 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 sickly green shade of his skin.
(b) The residue of her own tears.
(c) Beads of sweat.
(d) The beginnings of a mustache.

15. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Epimone.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Polyptoton.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

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).

4. Which technique is used in lines 221 and 222, "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak/ And now her sobs do her intendments break"?

5. How does the speaker characterize Venus's lapse into unconsciousness?

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