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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, The Amores : Chapter 1, Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people say about Ovid's speeches?
(a) They motivate the masses.
(b) They increase patriotism.
(c) They can bring peace between warring nations.
(d) His poetic ability is clear in them.

2. Which of the following best characterizes the leadership of the Roman Empire during Ovid's life?
(a) They are wealthy merchants able to buy their way into power.
(b) They are the strongest men in the country.
(c) They are from Gaul.
(d) They combine political and military leadership.

3. What is one of the clear causes of Ovid's banishment from Rome?
(a) His scandalous and immoral poetry.
(b) His speeches against the caesar.
(c) His affair with the Caesar's wife.
(d) His father's execution for treason.

4. In the third poem of Amores, what promise does Ovid make?
(a) Fidelity and eternal devotion.
(b) To win the affection of the object of his desire.
(c) To always be honest and spurn deceit.
(d) Not to stop until he has bedded a certain influential married woman.

5. What argument does Ovid make for his case in Amores 1:10?
(a) If making love gives pleasure to both, why should she reap and he pay?
(b) His gifts are verses that immortalize beauty.
(c) All the above.
(d) Females of the animal kingdom do not fleece their males.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Augustus?

2. What is the problem Ovid gives his lover instructions about in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

3. What class is Ovid considered?

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

5. When Augustus's daughter Julia reaches adulthood, what does she gain notoriety for?

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