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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 1138, "Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end"?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Paralepsis.

2. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Anthimeria.

3. What critique does the speaker offer of Venus's song?
(a) It exaggerates her feelings.
(b) It is immodest.
(c) It is out of tune.
(d) It is long and boring.

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

5. 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 what she was saying before her train of thought was interrupted.
(c) She is asking where Adonis intends to go once he leaves her that evening.
(d) She is asking where she and Adonis were when she first told him that he could leave for the night.

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

7. 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) Senses.
(b) Cheering.
(c) Dismay'd.
(d) Sore.

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

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

10. 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) Synecdoche.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Personification.

11. Why does Venus ask Adonis whether he saw her grow pale and tremble when he mentioned hunting boar?
(a) She hopes he will be aroused by her display of feminine "weakness."
(b) She hopes he will feel sympathy for her.
(c) She considers this evidence that she is not lying about her fear.
(d) She is stressing that she knows what she is talking about.

12. What does Venus compare to an informer and a spy?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?

2. 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"?

3. What technique is used in line 640, "They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends"?

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

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

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