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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?
(a) Violence.
(b) Impulsiveness.
(c) Callousness.
(d) Immodesty.

2. When Venus asks Adonis "Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?" whose story is she alluding to (157)?
(a) Narcissus.
(b) Icarus.
(c) The Minotaur.
(d) Pygmalion.

3. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?
(a) Venus's lustful thoughts.
(b) Adonis's stallion's seduction of the mare.
(c) Cupid drawing his bow.
(d) The words Adonis intends to say.

4. To what does the speaker compare Venus finally opening her eyes after her faint?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A leaf unfurling.
(c) A flower blooming.
(d) The sunrise.

5. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Comforting.
(d) Boastful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event causes the speaker to say that "The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day" (line 481)?

2. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?

3. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

4. What does the speaker compare to caves?

5. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the speaker compare Venus's eyes to "the moon in water seen by night" (line 492)?

2. How does Adonis eventually end up kissing Venus?

3. How do Venus and Adonis end up on the ground together?

4. Explain the conceit that Venus uses when she compares herself to a park.

5. Throughout the first 36 stanzas, how is Adonis depicted?

6. As Adonis vacillates "’Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy pale" (line 76), what is the speaker saying Venus feels in lines 77 and 78, "Being red she loves him best, and being white, / Her best is better’d with a more delight"?

7. What point is Adonis making with the metaphor "Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth?" (line 416)?

8. What does Venus tell Adonis will "buy" her heart (line 514), and how does she propose that he "seal" the bargain (line 516)?

9. What plan does Adonis share with Venus just as she is finally about to let him leave her, and how does Venus react?

10. In lines 131 and 132, what does Venus mean when she tells Adonis that "Fair flowers that are not gather’d in their prime/ Rot, and consume themselves in little time"?

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