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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) Dressing for a social occasion.
(b) Begging his lover to let him come to her.
(c) A nightime vigil outside his lovers door as he hopes to be let in.
(d) Entreating the gods to bring his lover to him.

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

3. What does Ovid say about Nape who is Corinna's handmaid?
(a) She is a great go-between.
(b) She meddles in affairs that are not hers.
(c) She is easy to deceive.
(d) She has alterior motives.

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

5. What career does Ovid's education meant to prepare him for?
(a) Ovid studies medicine to be a doctor.
(b) Ovid studies the classics so he could be a writer.
(c) Ovid studies business and trade so he could take over his father's empire.
(d) Ovid's education is in law so he could be a statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does Ovid marry?

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

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

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

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

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