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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is making the sounds referred to in lines 847 and 848, "For who hath she to spend the night withal,/ But idle sounds resembling parasites"?
(a) Caves.
(b) The night.
(c) Birds.
(d) Bugs.

4. Where does Venus go first thing in the morning?
(a) A mossy hillock.
(b) A myrtle grove.
(c) A garden pond.
(d) A copse of oaks.

5. What technique is used in lines 629 and 630, "The thorny brambles and embracing bushes/ As fearful of him, part"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allusion.

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

7. To whose dismayed surprise does the speaker compare Venus's astonishment when Adonis leaves her?
(a) Someone who is accidentally struck by a careless hunter's arrow.
(b) Someone whose lamp blows out when they are walking in the woods at night.
(c) Someone who is walking across unknown terrain and falls into a bog of quicksand.
(d) Someone whose pampered pet suddenly slips outside and runs away.

8. Who is the "flap-mouth’d mourner" referred to in line 920?
(a) A dog.
(b) A hunter.
(c) The boar.
(d) Venus.

9. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of Venus's motives as she describes hunting a rabbit?
(a) She intends to make it sound as exciting as hunting a boar.
(b) She intends to show Adonis how sympathetic she is toward prey animals.
(c) She intends to illustrate how knowledgeable she is about hunting.
(d) She intends to shame Adonis into choosing to hunt rabbit instead of boar.

10. What does Venus refer to as "ugly, meagre, lean"?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Lust.

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

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

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

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

15. What is the best definition of "sepulchres" in line 622, "His snout digs sepulchres where’er he goes"?
(a) Graves.
(b) Wounds.
(c) Trenches.
(d) Furrows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Venus's descriptions of the rabbit, fox, and deer have in common?

2. In the context of the comparison of Adonis's departure to the departure of a friend onboard ship, which of the following words functions as a pun?

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

4. Whom does Venus address as a "clear god" (line 860)?

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"?

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