View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the enemy of Rome get in to defeat the city?

2. What type of bird is Daedalion transformed into when he jumps off the cliff?

3. What does the water nymph transform the attacking animals into?

4. How does Hippolytus die?

5. What type of nymph is Galatea?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cipius convince Rome to exile him to his own land?

2. What does Ovid predict about the words of his novel in his epilogue?

3. What story does Vertumnus tell Pomona, luring her into a relationship with him?

4. How does Orpheus lose his wife, Eurydice?

5. How does Hyacinth find himself transformed into a flower?

6. Why does Pythagoras believe that man should abstain from eating meat?

7. How does Hippomenes outsmart Atalanta?

8. What story does Hippolytus tell Numa's wife when she is mourning over her husband's death?

9. How is Crotana founded?

10. How does Peleus eventually get Thetis to marry him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After the flood, there were very specific instructions given to the survivors as to how the world should be repopulated. Explain how the two survivors came to be selected, describe their instructions for re-population, and describe the survivors' reaction to their instructions.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Many of the gods act violently toward the mortals they rule over. Choose two examples of violence against the mortals and then explain what effect the violent behaviors of the gods had on the balance between the two worlds.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 905 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample