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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Art of Love : Chapter 2, Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid bid farewell to at the end of Amores book 3?
(a) Rome.
(b) Sweet moments of passion.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Elegies of love.

2. What does Ovid constantly get distracted by while in the arena?
(a) An incomplete verse he has left.
(b) Thoughts of Corinna.
(c) Pretty women passing by.
(d) The girl who accompanies him.

3. What does Ovid say made Corinna popular in Amores 3:12?
(a) Her loose morals.
(b) His poems.
(c) Her exquisite beauty.
(d) Her husband's money.

4. Where is Ovid in Amores 3:13?
(a) On a boat off the shore.
(b) Juno's festival in Falerii.
(c) Traveling the countryside with Corinna.
(d) In the bed of a woman that he does not like.

5. What does the dream interpreter say Ovid's dream means?
(a) That his lover will soon leave him.
(b) That he should focus on his writing.
(c) That he is a puppet of the gods.
(d) That he mocks love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid say is true of love?

2. According to Ovid, what happens when people resist the powers of love?

3. What reason does Ovid give for his impotence in Amores 3:7?

4. What spectacle does Ovid watch in Amores 3:2?

5. What keeps Ovid from writing the epic poem about warfare he sets out to write?

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