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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid encourage at parties?
(a) Let the girl see passion in your eyes.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Befriending the girl's escort.
(d) Ambiguous phrases that make the girl feel they are for her.

2. What is the first thing Ovid recommends that women in search of love to do?
(a) Go places with women who have lovers.
(b) Go to fashionable parties.
(c) Dress themselves to display wealth.
(d) Display their beauty in public.

3. What does Ovid say about seducing the maid of the lady you are after?
(a) Do not seduce the maid to get to the lady.
(b) All of the above.
(c) After the lady is secure, seduce the maid if you want.
(d) The maid's guilt will keep her from turner informer.

4. How long does Ovid's family live?
(a) They all die young.
(b) Ovid lives longer than all of his children.
(c) Ovid dies a young man before his talents have totally matured.
(d) They all live reasonably long lives.

5. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's poetry?
(a) Is bucolic and pastoral.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Shows toleration for marital infidelity.
(d) Undercuts the regime in power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ovid telling to turn a blind eye about the affairs of his lover in Amores 2:2?

2. How does Ovid feel about kissing and telling?

3. What spectacle does Ovid watch in Amores 3:2?

4. In Amores 2:6, what does the parrot show little interest in?

5. Whose baby does Ovid suppose Corinna is carrying when she tries to get an abortion?

(see the answer key)

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