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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the poem about that the teacher recites in Puteoli?
(a) Bad students.
(b) The importance of discipline in writing and the arts.
(c) The value of teachers and that they should be respected.
(d) Bad parents.

3. Considering similar works of the same time period, what link was the author's satire obviously missing?
(a) Man's failure was due to politicians.
(b) Man's failure was because of attempts to be moral.
(c) Man's failure was due to lack of morals.
(d) Man's failure was because of attempts to be immortal.

4. Who is the narrator of "The Satyricon"?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Encolpius.
(d) Giton.

5. Who bruises Trimalchio's arm?
(a) Giton.
(b) The chef.
(c) Encolpius.
(d) An acrobat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who complains about the professors and all their empty rhetoric?

2. Where does the old woman take the two students she encounters?

3. How does the decorated platter play into the entertainment for the evening?

4. What language do the actors use in their presentation at the dinner party?

5. What role does Giton play when Ascyltus and Encolpius attend the special dinner?

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