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

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

3. What is the best definition of "eyne" in line 633, "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne"?
(a) Skin.
(b) Voice.
(c) Breath.
(d) Eyes.

4. 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) Euphony.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Simile.
(d) Malapropism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What does Venus tell Adonis is usually unlike her?

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

4. In line 1043, what is the speaker comparing to "a king perplexed in his throne"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What conclusion does Venus reach about why the boar killed Adonis, and what does this cause her to reflect about her own behavior?

2. Explain the pun in lines 827 and 828, when after Adonis leaves, the speaker says of Venus, "Even so confounded in the dark she lay,/ Having lost the fair discovery of her way."

3. Why does Venus say that nature should be convicted of treason, and what is Cynthia's plan to thwart what nature has done?

4. What trick do Venus's eyes play on her after she has been looking at Adonis's body for a few minutes?

5. How does Venus's attitude toward death change when she believes that Adonis is alive?

6. Describe the details of Venus's vision of Adonis and the boar.

7. What does Venus tell Adonis about the relationship between jealousy and her foreboding?

8. What does Venus tell Adonis about his beauty and the boar?

9. After Adonis's death, what does Venus predict about love?

10. How does Adonis contrast love and lust?

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