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

2. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's poetry?
(a) Undercuts the regime in power.
(b) Is bucolic and pastoral.
(c) Shows toleration for marital infidelity.
(d) None of the above.

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

4. In Amores 2:14, what practice does Ovid say could cause mankind to be extinct?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Birth control.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Abortion.

5. In Amores 2:4, what type of woman does Ovid express a preference for?
(a) Blondes.
(b) All of them.
(c) Smart ones.
(d) Demure ones.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What victory does Ovid celebrate in Amores 2:12?

3. Whose baby does Ovid suppose Corinna is carrying when she tries to get an abortion?

4. What class is Ovid considered?

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

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