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

2. 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 considers this evidence that she is not lying about her fear.
(c) She is stressing that she knows what she is talking about.
(d) She hopes he will feel sympathy for her.

3. What technique is used in lines 1123 and 1124, "She looks upon his lips, and they are pale;/ She takes him by the hand, and that is cold"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metonymy.

4. What technique is used in lines 819 and 820, "Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,/ Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Innuendo.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. What techniques are used in lines 1015 and 1016, "“O love!” quoth she, “how much a fool was I,/ To be of such a weak and silly mind"?
(a) Euphemism and apostrophe.
(b) Parallelism and euphemism.
(c) Apostrophe and inversion.
(d) Inversion and parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Venus's motive for flattering death?

2. What does Venus mean when she says, in lines 649 and 650, "For where love reigns, disturbing jealousy/ Doth call himself affection’s sentinel"?

3. What type of human does Venus compare the boar to?

4. What technique is used in line 1138, "Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end"?

5. What does Venus compare to an informer and a spy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Venus contrast the behavior of fish and birds with the behavior of the boar?

3. What happens to Adonis's body at the end of the poem, and how does Venus respond?

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

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

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

7. How does Adonis contrast love and lust?

8. What is ironic about the description of the colors around the boar's mouth?

9. What criticism does the speaker make of lovers' stories?

10. What does Venus suggest Adonis do if he insists on hunting on the following day?

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