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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, The Cures for Love : Chapter 1, The Cures for Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reasons doe his partner give for Ovid's impotence?
(a) Infidelity or inflated ego.
(b) Weakness or fear.
(c) A witches curse or the disfavor of the gods.
(d) A hex or he had just made love with someone else.

2. What trait does Ovid teach as important in the winning of the girl of one's choice?
(a) Flexibility.
(b) Patience.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Persistance.

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

4. What is Ovid hoping will happen as he waits outside the door in Amores 1:6?
(a) Corinna to come home.
(b) Corinna's husband to leave.
(c) The doorbolt to slide free.
(d) Corinna to answer him.

5. What kind of social life does Ovid recommend while trying to cure a love?
(a) Go to social affairs to find a new love.
(b) Always keep someone around and avoid seclusion.
(c) Lock yourself away until you are cured.
(d) Remove yourself from society to not run into your lover by accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Ovid claim his writing will now be about?

2. Which of the following does Ovid suggest is a bad idea?

3. Whose concerns does Ovid address first thing in The Cures for Love?

4. What does Ovid say will happen if you send your intended mistress a letter in sophisticated and high brow language?

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

(see the answer key)

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