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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. In Amores 2:17, what attribute of Corinna does Ovid say keeps him enslaved?
(a) Her good heart.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her innocence.
(d) Her passion for him.

2. When Augustus's daughter Julia reaches adulthood, what does she gain notoriety for?
(a) Marrying the caesar who is her stepfather.
(b) Promiscuity.
(c) Her subversive political nature.
(d) Her ability as an orator.

3. Does Ovid have children?
(a) He had several stepchildren.
(b) Yes, he and his third wife had two children.
(c) Yes, he had one daughter from his second marriage.
(d) Yes, he had eight children from his various marriages.

4. In the fifth poem of Amores Book I, what time of day is it?
(a) Siesta time.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Late morning.
(d) Late at night.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ovid born?

2. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?

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

4. What does Ovid define as his natural weapons in Amores 2:1?

5. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

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