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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. Who is Macer?
(a) Ovid's master of education.
(b) The wealthy merchant that sent him to school.
(c) Ovid's father.
(d) Ovid's school fellow.

2. What is the forte of the parrot that dies in Amores 2:6?
(a) Catching nuts.
(b) His beautiful plumage.
(c) Talking.
(d) Swinging upside down.

3. Does Ovid have children?
(a) Yes, he had eight children from his various marriages.
(b) He had several stepchildren.
(c) Yes, he and his third wife had two children.
(d) Yes, he had one daughter from his second marriage.

4. What advice does Ovid overhear a person giving Corinna in Amores 1:8?
(a) How to use love for financial advantage.
(b) How to make herself more attractive.
(c) That she had better no entertain any other lovers.
(d) How to end the relationship with Ovid.

5. Who does Ovid threaten with exposure if she denies him in Amores 2:8?
(a) Corinna's best friend.
(b) Corinna.
(c) Corinna's lady maid, Cypassis.
(d) Caesar's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the poet overhear speaking with Corinna in Amores 1:8?

2. When does Ovid marry for the first time?

3. What does Ovid do after his first marriage ends?

4. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?

5. To whom is Ovid speaking in Amores 1:6 as he sits outside the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ovid hope to accomplish by telling the story of the river that falls in love with the wandering woman to the stream?

2. What is the event that happens to cause Ovid to first offer an elegy and then scorn regarding the writing tablet?

3. What is the nature of the relationship between Corinna and Ovid in Amores book 1? What is the major impediment that stands in their way?

4. Explain what happens the time Ovid is impotent.

5. What happens to Ovid after his banishment? How long does he live?

6. What does Dipsas tell Corinna?

7. Who dies in Amores 2? Does this character have a special ability?

8. What is Ovid's opinion of those who expose clandestine love affairs?

9. What reasons does Ovid give for wanting to be a ring on Corinna's finger?

10. Why is Elegy lame and "short in one foot" in the beginning of Amores book 2?

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