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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Art of Love : Chapter 1, Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?
(a) Politics are seeped with treason.
(b) Religiosity is at an all time low.
(c) Adultery has grown to outrageous proportions.
(d) No one wants to lead or govern.

2. What class is Ovid considered?
(a) Fifth or the lowest class.
(b) Second class.
(c) Third class.
(d) First class or the elite.

3. What advice is Ovid giving to men in Amores 3:4?
(a) To go on long campaigns of war.
(b) To have mistresses.
(c) To never leave their wives side.
(d) To not object to or try to control adulterous wives.

4. What does Ovid say women are expert at?
(a) Denying the advances of calculating men.
(b) Showing emotion they do not feel.
(c) Fleecing their lover for gifts.
(d) Pretending to be disinterested.

5. In Amores 2:11, who is traveling?
(a) Corinna's husband.
(b) Ovid's father.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Ovid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following could be a quote from Amores 1:8?

2. Who has died in Amores 3:9?

3. What does Ovid define as his natural weapons in Amores 2:1?

4. If your love letters are met with rejection or resistance, what does Ovid recommend?

5. What advice does Ovid overhear a person giving Corinna in Amores 1:8?

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