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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ovid, how much should you talk to a girl when you are leaving her?

2. What does Ovid recommend NOT doing at night?

3. Who is Ovid's target audience when writing The Art of Love Book 3?

4. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's motivation for his manual on how to subdue love?

5. Which of the following best characterizes the content of The Art of Love book 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ovid recommend to women do regarding any personal flaws they might have?

2. What advice does Ovid give regarding makeup? What does he say about how much to wear and when to apply it?

3. Why does Ovid like to promise gifts?

4. According to Ovid in The Art of Love book 2, what difference is there between being a wealthy lover and a poor one?

5. What is Ovid's advice regarding how much to drink at parties?

6. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

7. How would you describe Ovid's general approach to women as portrayed in The Art of Love?

8. What sort of language does Ovid recommend using when writing to a girl?

9. What is Ovid referring to when he says "A fire's blown up by the wind, by the wind extinguished: a gentle breeze fans the flame, a harder gust puts it out?"

10. What does Ovid recommend doing should your lover fall ill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ovid is a writer whose poetry is still being read two thousand years after he wrote it and people are still relating to it. Why is this?

Part 1. What is it about Ovid's writing that makes it timeless?

Part 2. What part of Ovid's poetry have you managed to relate to personally?

Part 3. Do you think Ovid's work will continue to be accessible to future generations?

Essay Topic 2

Summarize the advice that Ovid gives to men and/or women regarding what to do to be successful in obtaining and securing a lover.

Part 1. What suggestions does he make regarding appearance?

Part 2. What suggestions does he make regarding behavior?

Part 3. How accurate or valuable to you feel his advice is?

Part 4. Is any, most, or all of it still applicable today? What has changed and what hasn't?

Essay Topic 3

Ovid's erotic poems are written in elegiac couplets. Discuss this choice of meter form.

Part 1. What are the component parts of meter?

Part 2. What is a system of scansion and how is it used?

Part 3. What are elegiac couplets? What problems are there in translating this meter from the Latin?

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