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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. In Amores 1:6, what activity is Ovid engaged in?
(a) A nightime vigil outside his lovers door as he hopes to be let in.
(b) Begging his lover to let him come to her.
(c) Entreating the gods to bring his lover to him.
(d) Dressing for a social occasion.

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

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

4. How does Ovid's first marriage end?
(a) His father casts out his wife after catching her in an affair.
(b) Divorce after only a couple years.
(c) None of the above.
(d) He loses his wife and child in childbirth.

5. When does Ovid marry for the first time?
(a) When he is settled into his career.
(b) As soon as he finishes his education.
(c) When he turns forty.
(d) When he is only a teenager.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

2. Why is Ovid's father against Ovid becoming a poet?

3. What is one of the clear causes of Ovid's banishment from Rome?

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

5. What keeps Ovid from writing the epic poem about warfare he sets out to write?

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