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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. Who is Macer?
(a) Ovid's master of education.
(b) Ovid's school fellow.
(c) The wealthy merchant that sent him to school.
(d) Ovid's father.

2. What does Ovid's wife do when he is banished?
(a) Lobby for his return but stay in Rome.
(b) Annul the marriage.
(c) Divorce him.
(d) Accompany him in exile.

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

4. What does Ovid bid farewell to at the end of Amores book 3?
(a) Elegies of love.
(b) Sweet moments of passion.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Rome.

5. Who is Corinna with in Amores 3:8 that Ovid finds especially hurtful?
(a) Her husband.
(b) A soldier.
(c) Another poet.
(d) A new very handsome lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reasons doe his partner give for Ovid's impotence?

2. In Amores 2:10, how does Ovid say he would like to die?

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

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

5. Who is Augustus?

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