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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in line 720, "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all.'"?
(a) Epigram.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. How does Venus characterize animals like the lion, tiger, and wolf when in Adonis's presence?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Tame.
(d) Predatory.

3. What does Venus say will die with Adonis?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Chaos.

4. Which technique is used in line 1151, "It shall be raging mad, and silly mild"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Paradox.

5. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?
(a) The power to cause memory loss and hallucinations.
(b) The power to cause sudden illness and death.
(c) The power to increase crop yields.
(d) The power to control the weather.

6. What colors are emphasized in the description of morning?
(a) Blue and green.
(b) Yellow and orange.
(c) Silver and gold.
(d) Red and white.

7. When Venus suddenly has hope that Adonis is alive, who is the "rash suspect" that she "doth extenuate" (line 1009)?
(a) Love.
(b) Adonis.
(c) Death.
(d) The boar.

8. What does Venus say the boar is looking for with its "downward eye" (line 1106)?
(a) A bed.
(b) A grave.
(c) Its foes.
(d) Its prey.

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

10. What technique is used in lines 647 and 648, "My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,/ But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Euphony.

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

12. What technique is used in line 640, "They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Aphorism.
(c) Paralepsis.
(d) Antimetabole.

13. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Euphony.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Assonance.

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

15. To what does Venus compare the fear of a person in love?
(a) The fear of a mother holding a newborn during a rising flood.
(b) The fear of a shepherd seeing his flock beset by wolves.
(c) The fear of a monarch whose castle is besieged by enemies.
(d) The fear of a person carrying treasure who is surrounded by thieves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Venus ask Adonis whether he saw her grow pale and tremble when he mentioned hunting boar?

3. What technique is used in lines 629 and 630, "The thorny brambles and embracing bushes/ As fearful of him, part"?

4. What is Venus saying when she asks the world "what canst thou boast/ Of things long since, or anything ensuing" (lines 1077 and 1078)?

5. What does Venus tell Adonis will be the cause of him tripping and falling?

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