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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of physique does Ovid say that men consumed by love have?
(a) Thin and haggard.
(b) Fit and hard.
(c) Soft and friendly.
(d) Sickly and tremelous.

2. What class is Ovid considered?
(a) Third class.
(b) Fifth or the lowest class.
(c) First class or the elite.
(d) Second class.

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

4. In Amores 1:6, what activity is Ovid engaged in?
(a) Begging his lover to let him come to her.
(b) Dressing for a social occasion.
(c) A nightime vigil outside his lovers door as he hopes to be let in.
(d) Entreating the gods to bring his lover to him.

5. Who is Ovid's target audience when writing The Art of Love Book 3?
(a) Beautiful women in order to keep control of their affairs.
(b) Ordinary women.
(c) Everyone who will listen.
(d) Young women that are first starting their adult lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much focus does Ovid put on poetry when he finishes his education?

2. What does Ovid constantly get distracted by while in the arena?

3. What does Ovid notice has changed in his lover when he kisses her in Amores 2:5?

4. In Amores 2:17, what attribute of Corinna does Ovid say keeps him enslaved?

5. What did Vulcan gain by catching Venus and Mars together and exposing them?

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