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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, The Amores : Chapter 3, Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does Ovid have in Amores 2:10?
(a) He is too tired to respond to his lovers advances.
(b) He has two lovers and he cannot choose whom he prefers.
(c) He suspects Corinna is about to leave him.
(d) Corinna's husband suspects their affair.

2. In Amores 2:18, what does Ovid claim to be unable to do?
(a) Ever give his heart entirely.
(b) See anything bad in Corinna.
(c) Love a woman other than Corinna.
(d) Eject Corinna.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the leadership of the Roman Empire during Ovid's life?
(a) They are from Gaul.
(b) They combine political and military leadership.
(c) They are the strongest men in the country.
(d) They are wealthy merchants able to buy their way into power.

4. 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) His lover is with her husband at a party.
(c) His lover wants to run away from her home with him.
(d) None of the above.

5. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) What to say to appear coy.
(b) Secret signals for them to communicate.
(c) What living independently means.
(d) How to hold off an interested man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens that Ovid regrets instantly in Amores 1:7?

2. In the third poem of Amores, what promise does Ovid make?

3. What story does Ovid tell in Amores 3:6 in hopes of winning sympathy?

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

5. When Augustus's daughter Julia reaches adulthood, what does she gain notoriety for?

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