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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Art of Love : Chapter 2, Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Ovid give particularly to lovers who are poor?
(a) Tolerate infidelity.
(b) Learn carefully how to manipulate.
(c) Chose an undemanding lover.
(d) Keep peace with the mistress.

2. What is the problem Ovid gives his lover instructions about in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) His lover is being courted by a powerful man.
(b) None of the above.
(c) His lover wants to run away from her home with him.
(d) His lover is with her husband at a party.

3. What does Ovid bid farewell to at the end of Amores book 3?
(a) Corinna.
(b) Sweet moments of passion.
(c) Elegies of love.
(d) Rome.

4. In Amores 3:3, what does Ovid say pretty girls should get away with?
(a) Coloring their hair as much as they want.
(b) Dressing inappropriately.
(c) Being in public with their lovers.
(d) Perjury.

5. In Amores 1:6, what activity is Ovid engaged in?
(a) A nightime vigil outside his lovers door as he hopes to be let in.
(b) Dressing for a social occasion.
(c) Begging his lover to let him come to her.
(d) Entreating the gods to bring his lover to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid say of "ladies plucking their first gray hairs"?

2. What is Ovid tempted to do when good men die untimely deaths?

3. Why does Ovid berate the writing tablet in Amores 1:12?

4. How does Ovid feel about kissing and telling?

5. What trait does Ovid teach as important in the winning of the girl of one's choice?

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