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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dinner with Trimalchio.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the translator suspect the modern reader will view the sexual nature of "The Satyricon"?
(a) Risque.
(b) Unoffensive.
(c) Offensive.
(d) Unimportant.

2. What does Trimalchio order for the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig?
(a) He is stoned.
(b) He is fired.
(c) He is stripped.
(d) He is whipped.

3. What color coat does Trimalchio wear to the dinner party?
(a) Gold.
(b) Silver.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

4. What is the mural of on the dining wall at the special party?
(a) Heaven, with Trimalchio as the only god.
(b) A market scene.
(c) Heaven, with God and Trimalchio.
(d) Trimalchio along with the gods Mercury and Minerva.

5. Who does Ascyltus accuse of being a hypocrite?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) The old woman.
(c) Encolpius.
(d) Quartilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Roman satire does the translator link to "The Satyricon"?

2. Who made advances toward Ascyltus when he is with the old woman?

3. How does the argument between Encolpius and Ascyltus in the section called Puteoli end?

4. Which emperor had high literary ambitions?

5. Niceros tells a story about what creature?

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