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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Puteoli.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was everyone drinking at the location where the old woman took the students?
(a) Sea water.
(b) Tea.
(c) Aphrodisiacs.
(d) Lemonade.

2. Who tries to rape Giton?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Ascyltus.

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

4. Who complains about the professors and all their empty rhetoric?
(a) Encolpius.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Circe.
(d) Giton.

5. Which Roman satire does the translator link to "The Satyricon"?
(a) "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
(b) "Amores."
(c) "Athena."
(d) "Julius Caesar."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the poem about that the teacher recites in Puteoli?

2. In response to the complaint about professors, the teacher recites lines written by whom?

3. What details in "The Satyricon" will probably not surprise a modern audience?

4. Who does Ascyltus accuse of being a hypocrite?

5. Who wrote the introduction to "The Satyricon"?

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