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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. What color is Scylla's father's hair?

2. What type of insect reoccurs in Minos' dreams of the tree?

3. After Minerva begins to beat her, how does Arachne commit suicide?

4. In her conversation with the raven, what does the crow claim to have been before her transformation?

5. After Tiresias is struck by a stick, what is changed about him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Juno enlists Tisiphone to help her extract her revenge on Athamas and Ino?

2. Who are Philemon and Baucis?

3. What happens when Jupiter goes to visit Lycaon?

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

5. Why does Tereus believe that his relationship with Procne is doomed from the start?

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

7. How are the five families of Thebe formed?

8. How is Hercules killed?

9. Why is the beautiful princess transformed into a Crow?

10. How does Io come to be pregnant with Erasmus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

All of Ovid's relationships in the text seem to end the same way - with one or both of the lovers in extreme pain. Choose two relationships featured in the novel and explain how pain inevitably rose from the couple's love.

Essay Topic 2

The Olympian gods were often hypocritical in the novel. Choose two examples of rules that the mortals were given that the gods blatantly ignored. Then, explain the effect that the hypocritical nature the gods expressed had on their relationships with the mortals.

Essay Topic 3

Pythagoras acts as an important speaker at the end of Ovid's novel. Explain the arguments that Pythagoras gave, and how they acted to summarize the messages that Ovid attempted to make throughout the novel.

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