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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 social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?
(a) No one wants to lead or govern.
(b) Adultery has grown to outrageous proportions.
(c) Politics are seeped with treason.
(d) Religiosity is at an all time low.

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

3. 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.

4. What keeps Ovid from writing the epic poem about warfare he sets out to write?
(a) He feels the topic too lofty for his verse.
(b) Cupid shoots him with an arrow.
(c) It is the topic of caesars and leaders, and he is but a man.
(d) He must write something the people of Rome want to read.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fifth poem of Amores Book I, what time of day is it?

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

3. Where is Ovid born?

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

5. What is Ovid hoping will happen as he waits outside the door in Amores 1:6?

(see the answer key)

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