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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. Who is Ovid trying to persuade to stay away in Amores 1:13?
(a) Cupid.
(b) His father from visiting.
(c) Aurora, the dawn.
(d) Corinna's husband.

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

3. What advice does Ovid overhear a person giving Corinna in Amores 1:8?
(a) How to end the relationship with Ovid.
(b) How to make herself more attractive.
(c) How to use love for financial advantage.
(d) That she had better no entertain any other lovers.

4. Why is Ovid's father against Ovid becoming a poet?
(a) Poetry is not a respected talent.
(b) He wants Ovid to take over the family business.
(c) Poets have a reputation as subversives.
(d) There is no money in it.

5. Why does Corinna's hair fall out?
(a) She stops eating to lose weight.
(b) Her husband pulls it out in anger.
(c) She falls ill.
(d) She uses too many rinses to color it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is Ovid born?

4. How long does Ovid's family live?

5. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?

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