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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. In Amores 2:11, who is traveling?
(a) Corinna's husband.
(b) Corinna.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Ovid's father.

2. What does Ovid say about Nape who is Corinna's handmaid?
(a) She has alterior motives.
(b) She is a great go-between.
(c) She is easy to deceive.
(d) She meddles in affairs that are not hers.

3. Who is Ovid trying to persuade to stay away in Amores 1:13?
(a) Corinna's husband.
(b) His father from visiting.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Aurora, the dawn.

4. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?
(a) Politics are seeped with treason.
(b) Religiosity is at an all time low.
(c) Adultery has grown to outrageous proportions.
(d) No one wants to lead or govern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid ask Corinna to do in Amores 3:14?

2. What reason does Ovid give for his impotence in Amores 3:7?

3. What does Ovid compare resisting the powers of love to?

4. In relation to politics, what is Ovid good at?

5. In Amores 2:5, what does Ovid witness his lover doing?

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