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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 does Ovid say is the secret to finesse at lovemaking?
(a) Technique.
(b) Passion.
(c) Experience.
(d) Sincerity.

2. What does Ovid say of "ladies plucking their first gray hairs"?
(a) They are a field worth sowing.
(b) They have grown wise to his tricks and are difficult to woo.
(c) They no longer have the ardor for best lovemaking.
(d) Wisdom makes passion grow dim.

3. What does Ovid say about the characters of women?
(a) They are all the same woman.
(b) They all differ.
(c) There are only a few primary types.
(d) Essentially, they are all the same.

4. In Amores 2:4, what type of woman does Ovid express a preference for?
(a) Demure ones.
(b) Smart ones.
(c) Blondes.
(d) All of them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid bid farewell to at the end of Amores book 3?

2. How does Ovid explain the need for a book on the Cures for Love?

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

4. In Amores 3:11, Ovid claims, "Your morals turn me off, your body on." Which one does he say is likely to win out?

5. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

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