View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in line 1141, "It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud"?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Alliteration.

2. What does line 972 compare to "many clouds consulting for foul weather"?
(a) The howling dogs.
(b) Venus's emotions.
(c) The years Venus will live without Adonis.
(d) The events leading to Adonis's death.

3. What is Venus compared to when she hears the sound of the hunting dogs baying?
(a) Someone who sees a poisonous snake.
(b) A lamp brighter than the sun himself.
(c) A soldier deserting the battlefield.
(d) A doe rushing to feed her fawn.

4. What techniques are used in lines 1015 and 1016, "“O love!” quoth she, “how much a fool was I,/ To be of such a weak and silly mind"?
(a) Inversion and parallelism.
(b) Apostrophe and inversion.
(c) Parallelism and euphemism.
(d) Euphemism and apostrophe.

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

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

7. What is Venus's motive for flattering death?
(a) She feels genuinely sorry that she has accused him.
(b) She fears that death will try to take her life, too.
(c) She hopes it will keep death from taking Adonis.
(d) She is relieved and her natural flirtatiousness returns.

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

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

10. What is the most logical definition of the word "fair" in the context of line 1083, "Having no fair to lose, you need not fear"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Justice.
(c) Calm.
(d) Beauty.

11. In line 1043, what is the speaker comparing to "a king perplexed in his throne"?
(a) The boar.
(b) Death.
(c) Venus's brain.
(d) Adonis's stallion.

12. What bird's song heralds the approach of morning?
(a) The lark.
(b) The robin.
(c) The thrush.
(d) The sparrow.

13. 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) Innuendo.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

14. What type of human does Venus compare the boar to?
(a) A hangman.
(b) A thief.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A soldier.

15. What is the most reasonable interpretation of what Venus means when she asks "Where did I leave?” and Adonis replies “No matter where" (line 715)?
(a) She is asking Adonis to explain what he means when he accuses her of wanting to leave.
(b) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.
(c) She is asking where Adonis intends to go once he leaves her that evening.
(d) She is asking what she was saying before her train of thought was interrupted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What colors are emphasized in the description of morning?

2. 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?

3. When Venus "sings extemporally a woeful ditty," what is the best definition for "extemporally" in this context (line 836)?

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

5. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 702 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample