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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 does Ovid say made Corinna popular in Amores 3:12?
(a) Her exquisite beauty.
(b) Her husband's money.
(c) His poems.
(d) Her loose morals.

2. In Amores 3:3, what does Ovid say pretty girls should get away with?
(a) Being in public with their lovers.
(b) Dressing inappropriately.
(c) Coloring their hair as much as they want.
(d) Perjury.

3. What does Ovid compare resisting the powers of love to?
(a) A bird deciding not to fly.
(b) A hermit closing his eyes to the world.
(c) Fighting back the tide.
(d) A horse resisting its harness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What spectacle does Ovid watch in Amores 3:2?

2. What does the dream interpreter say Ovid's dream means?

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

4. Who has died in Amores 3:9?

5. What class is Ovid considered?

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