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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6, Book 6 : Chapter 2, Satiric Verses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Readers are advised that to take in the full sense of this section, it might be best to do what?
(a) Read this out loud.
(b) Read this slowly.
(c) Read this more than once.
(d) Read this with a professor.

2. Here the verses continue with their what?
(a) Hexameters.
(b) Heptameters.
(c) Pentameters.
(d) Decimeters.

3. How are the poems labeled in their sequence?
(a) As mornings.
(b) As evenings.
(c) As nights.
(d) As days.

4. What word might best describe the presentation?
(a) Educational.
(b) Melodramatic.
(c) Interesting.
(d) Unique.

5. There is a small amount of commentary accompanying these. The first is about whose poetry?
(a) Herodotus'.
(b) Homer's.
(c) Mimnermus'.
(d) Aristophanes'.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poems include one titled ____________.

2. What do the scholars point out about some of these writings?

3. Their relation to the mystical and the divine also sets them apart from what in their form?

4. The story continues to move along in its _____________.

5. "...any loving woman is sure to be loved [regardless of her physical form]...so beneficial and highly valued" is what?

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