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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. How many years is Tereus married to Procne before he begins to see other women?

2. Who is Venus having an affair with when her husband, Vulcan, discovers them?

3. Where do the furies, including Tisiphone, live?

4. In Ovid's version of the creation of the earth, what are the first two forces to be separated?

5. What object do Deucalian and Pyrrah throw to the earth, creating humans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do Cupid's first two arrows shoot, and what is the outcome?

2. What happens when Medea attempts to help Pelias' daughter return their father to an age of youthfulness?

3. What condition does Jupiter come up with for the return of Proserpina from the underworld?

4. How does Europa come to be missing?

5. How does Perseus come to marry Andromeda?

6. How does the competition between Minerva and Arachne progress?

7. What is a Minotaur, and what is Minos' reaction to it?

8. What significant events happen surrounding the birth of Hercules?

9. Who are Philemon and Baucis?

10. What prophecy does Meleager's mother remember in regards to her son's life and death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Snakes and birds are the most commonly referred to animals in the text. Explain what each of these animals symbolizes in the Olympian world, and why they were the animals that humans were most commonly transformed into.

Essay Topic 2

Taking a woman by force is an unfortunately common practice in Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Explain how women are treated by the gods in the novel, and how the practice of taking a woman by force relates to the idea of love.

Essay Topic 3

Many characters take over as the active narrator in "Metamorphoses". Choose one narrator who functioned as the main storyteller in the novel, and explain how the story was altered by that character's unique voice and perspective.

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