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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 reasons doe his partner give for Ovid's impotence?
(a) A witches curse or the disfavor of the gods.
(b) Infidelity or inflated ego.
(c) A hex or he had just made love with someone else.
(d) Weakness or fear.

2. What keeps Ovid and Corinna apart in Amores 3:10?
(a) Her husband back from campaign.
(b) The rites for Ceres' yearly festival.
(c) They fight.
(d) Corinna falls ill.

3. Who is arguing about Ovid in Amores 3:1?
(a) Corinna and Lucinda.
(b) Elegy and Corinna.
(c) Elegy and Tragedy.
(d) Fate and Duty.

4. What does the dream interpreter say Ovid's dream means?
(a) That he is a puppet of the gods.
(b) That he mocks love.
(c) That he should focus on his writing.
(d) That his lover will soon leave him.

5. In Amores 3:11, Ovid claims, "Your morals turn me off, your body on." Which one does he say is likely to win out?
(a) His morals will her reform her.
(b) His distaste for her personality.
(c) His morals will decline to match his lust.
(d) "Love" or her body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

2. How does Ovid feel about love charms and aphrodisiacs?

3. What advice is Ovid giving to men in Amores 3:4?

4. Who is Ovid trying to persuade to stay away in Amores 1:13?

5. Why did Daedalus make wings for himself and his son?

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