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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 is Ovid hoping will happen as he waits outside the door in Amores 1:6?
(a) Corinna to come home.
(b) The doorbolt to slide free.
(c) Corinna's husband to leave.
(d) Corinna to answer him.

2. What does Ovid's wife do when he is banished?
(a) Lobby for his return but stay in Rome.
(b) Annul the marriage.
(c) Accompany him in exile.
(d) Divorce him.

3. What time period does Ovid live in?
(a) During the reign of Julius Caesar.
(b) Around the time of Christ.
(c) The 1500s.
(d) The second century.

4. 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) How to hold off an interested man.
(d) What to say to appear coy.

5. Who is Augustus?
(a) Ovid's great uncle.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Caesar of Rome.
(d) A man of immense wealth and influence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can best be said about Ovid?

2. Why does Corinna's hair fall out?

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

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

5. What happens that Ovid regrets instantly in Amores 1:7?

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