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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?
(a) They stress the timid and retiring nature of these animals.
(b) They stress that all three yield delicious meat and useful skins.
(c) They stress how numerous and easily spotted these creatures are.
(d) They stress how fast and clever these animals are.

2. 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) Apostrophe.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synecdoche.

3. What characteristic of the boar does Venus's description primarily stress?
(a) It is well-armed for battle.
(b) It is ugly inside and out.
(c) It is divinely protected.
(d) It is cunning and deceptive.

4. What technique is used in lines 693 and 694, "Ceasing their clamorous cry, till they have singled/ With much ado the cold fault cleanly out"?
(a) Sibilance.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Euphony.
(d) Assonance.

5. In lines 896 and 897, "Till cheering up her senses sore dismay’d,/ She tells them ’tis a causeless fantasy," what is the antecedent of "them"?
(a) Cheering.
(b) Dismay'd.
(c) Sore.
(d) Senses.

6. Whom does Venus address as a "clear god" (line 860)?
(a) The wind.
(b) The sky.
(c) The morning.
(d) The sun.

7. What is the most logical definition of "tushes" in the context of line 617, "Whose tushes never sheath’d he whetteth still"?
(a) Tusks.
(b) Touches.
(c) Hooves.
(d) Knives.

8. 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"?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Personification.
(d) Parallelism.

9. How does Venus know that the dogs are barking at a boar, bear, or lion?
(a) The sound of their barking is stationary.
(b) She cannot hear the sound of anything running through the brush.
(c) The dogs sound excited and frightened.
(d) She hears the excited cries of the hunters with the dogs.

10. In the conceit that Venus concludes her speech with near the end of the poem, what two things are compared?
(a) The flower and an infant.
(b) An infant and a cradle.
(c) Adonis and the flower.
(d) A father and a child.

11. 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"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Innuendo.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

12. What are the various forms of repetition in lines 833 and 834, "'Ay me!' she cries, and twenty times, 'Woe, woe!'/ And twenty echoes twenty times cry so," meant to convey?
(a) The repetition stresses Venus's passion and mimics the sound of echoing.
(b) The repetition demonstrates that Venus's lust has become genuine love.
(c) The repetition mimics the way Venus keeps running back and forth looking for Adonis.
(d) The repetition highlights the difference between Venus's display of grief and the shallowness of her real feelings.

13. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Antistrophe.
(d) Chiasmus.

14. Which two colors dominate the description of Adonis's body?
(a) Red and black.
(b) Black and purple.
(c) White and red.
(d) Purple and white.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?

2. What is Venus compared to when she hears the sound of the hunting dogs baying?

3. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?

4. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?

5. What does Adonis tell Venus he primarily objects to about her professions of love?

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