Venus and Adonis Quizzes

Venus and Adonis Quiz 1

1 What is significant about Venus and Adonis within Shakespeare's career?
It was his first published poem.

It was Queen Elizabeth I's favorite publication.

It is about Shakespeare's wife.

It inspired the play Hamlet.
2 What year was Venus and Adonis published?
1591

1606

1593

1619
3 In what form was Venus and Adonis first published?
Quarto

Pamphlet

Manuscript

Folio
4 What was Shakespeare's source material for the poem?
Ovid's Metamorphoses

Homer's The Illiad

Virgil's Eclogues

Philip Sidney's Arcadia
5 Venus is the goddess of what?
War

The sun

Music

Love
6 Why did Shakespeare turn to poetry after his plays were already being performed?
Queen Elizabeth I preferred poems to plays.

He wanted to be more like Philip Sidney.

His plays were not popular.

The theaters were closed due to the plague.
7 Who was Shakespeare's wife?
Amelia Lanyer

Anne Hathaway

Margaret Cavendish

Mary Sidney
8 What does Shakespeare alter from the original Venus and Adonis myth?
Adonis rejects Venus.

Venus is no longer the goddess of love.

Venus does not pursue Adonis.

Adonis does not die.
9 Which of these describes the tone of the poem?
Ironic

Erotic

Tragic

All of these
10 What is the form of each stanza in the poem?
Alexandrine

Sesta rima

Spenserian

Quatrain
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic pentameter

Free verse
12 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
Death

There is no clear protagonist.

Adonis

Venus
13 How many stanzas are in the poem?
199

320

600

50
14 Venus and Adonis is a myth from which ancient civilization?
Rome

China

Egypt

Greece
15 What is Adonis's most notable attribute?
His beauty

His intelligence

His cruelty

His skill at hunting
16 How old is Adonis?
An adolescent

The poem does not specify his age.

A man

A boy
17 What is Adonis's favorite thing?
Sleeping

Eating

Singing

Hunting
18 What does Adonis hunt that eventually kills him?
A boar

A lion

A wolf

A bear
19 What grows in Adonis's spilled blood?
A wreath

A flower

A fruit

A laurel
20 Where was Frencesco Petrarca from?
Italy

Greece

France

England
21 Which of these poets did not write poems in the Petrarchan mode?
William Shakespeare

Philip Sidney

John Donne

Thomas Wyatt
22 Which of these is a convention of Petrarchan poetry?
Metaphysical comparison

Long poems

Multiple speakers

Unrequited love
23 Who was often the implicit subject of Petrarchan love poetry in the English Renaissance?
God

Queen Elizabeth I

William Shakespeare

A noblewoman
24 Which of these genres does not appear in the poem?
Tragedy

Comedy

Prose

Pastoralism
25 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Death

A third-person narrator

Adonis

Venus

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