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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. Which of the following can best be said about Ovid?
(a) His success is due soley to his family's wealth.
(b) He enjoys some time with the reputation of being a good statesman and excellent poet.
(c) Poetry is they only thing he was admired for.
(d) He never will have had a satisfactory political career.

2. Does Ovid have children?
(a) Yes, he had one daughter from his second marriage.
(b) Yes, he and his third wife had two children.
(c) He had several stepchildren.
(d) Yes, he had eight children from his various marriages.

3. 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) Females of the animal kingdom do not fleece their males.
(c) His gifts are verses that immortalize beauty.
(d) All the above.

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

5. Who is Macer?
(a) Ovid's school fellow.
(b) Ovid's father.
(c) The wealthy merchant that sent him to school.
(d) Ovid's master of education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do people say about Ovid's speeches?

3. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

4. According to Ovid, what happens when people resist the powers of love?

5. What does Ovid do after his first marriage ends?

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