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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 do people say about Ovid's speeches?
(a) They motivate the masses.
(b) They increase patriotism.
(c) His poetic ability is clear in them.
(d) They can bring peace between warring nations.

2. What argument does Ovid make for his case in Amores 1:10?
(a) All the above.
(b) Females of the animal kingdom do not fleece their males.
(c) His gifts are verses that immortalize beauty.
(d) If making love gives pleasure to both, why should she reap and he pay?

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

4. Who is Augustus?
(a) Caesar of Rome.
(b) A man of immense wealth and influence.
(c) Ovid's great uncle.
(d) All of the above.

5. What does Ovid ask Corinna to do in Amores 3:14?
(a) None of the above.
(b) For her to be discreet and hide her other affairs from him.
(c) Be faithful.
(d) Sleep with him one last night.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following can best be said about Ovid?

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

4. Who does Ovid threaten with exposure if she denies him in Amores 2:8?

5. In Amores 2:19, what does Ovid wish for in the end of Amores?

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