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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 does Ovid compare in Amores 1:9?
(a) Lovers and politicians.
(b) Lovers and whores.
(c) Lovers and spouses.
(d) Lovers and soldiers.

2. What is the problem Ovid gives his lover instructions about in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) His lover is being courted by a powerful man.
(b) None of the above.
(c) His lover wants to run away from her home with him.
(d) His lover is with her husband at a party.

3. 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.

4. In the third poem of Amores, what promise does Ovid make?
(a) Not to stop until he has bedded a certain influential married woman.
(b) To win the affection of the object of his desire.
(c) Fidelity and eternal devotion.
(d) To always be honest and spurn deceit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Ovid have children?

2. What time period does Ovid live in?

3. Who is Augustus?

4. Which of the following best characterizes the leadership of the Roman Empire during Ovid's life?

5. Who is Ovid trying to persuade to stay away in Amores 1:13?

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