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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, The Amores : Chapter 2, Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What argument does Ovid make for his case in Amores 1:10?
(a) His gifts are verses that immortalize beauty.
(b) If making love gives pleasure to both, why should she reap and he pay?
(c) All the above.
(d) Females of the animal kingdom do not fleece their males.

2. Where is Ovid born?
(a) In Rome.
(b) In Greece.
(c) In the southern part of France.
(d) Outside the city of Rome.

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

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

5. What is the implied reason that Ovid does not have a military career?
(a) His father is wealthy enough to buy him out of the duty.
(b) There is a medical reason he was unable to serve.
(c) He is too ambitious politically.
(d) Ovid did not want to become a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid do to defend his actions in Amores 1:7?

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

3. Who is Ovid telling to turn a blind eye about the affairs of his lover in Amores 2:2?

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

5. In Amores 2:17, what attribute of Corinna does Ovid say keeps him enslaved?

(see the answer key)

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