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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. Which of the following best represents Ovid's recommendations for makeup?
(a) Young women should not wear it but older women should.
(b) Makeup only detracts from natural beauty and is gross to touch.
(c) Some is good, but do not wearn too much.
(d) Use plenty so it will not wear off during the day.

2. In Amores 2:4, what type of woman does Ovid express a preference for?
(a) All of them.
(b) Demure ones.
(c) Smart ones.
(d) Blondes.

3. What does Ovid say about Nape who is Corinna's handmaid?
(a) She meddles in affairs that are not hers.
(b) She is a great go-between.
(c) She has alterior motives.
(d) She is easy to deceive.

4. In Amores 2:9, what does Ovid argue that he should quit?
(a) Smoking.
(b) The field of love.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Taking recklass risks.

5. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) Secret signals for them to communicate.
(b) What living independently means.
(c) What to say to appear coy.
(d) How to hold off an interested man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the third poem of Amores, what promise does Ovid make?

3. In Amores 2:3, who is Ovid trying to convince to help him as a go-between?

4. What is the implied reason that Ovid does not have a military career?

5. What sort of physique does Ovid say that men consumed by love have?

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