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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. Which fine art does Ovid recommend attending while trying to cure a love?
(a) None of the above. Stay away from them all.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Theater.
(d) Concerts.

2. What does Ovid say regarding drinking while trying to cure love?
(a) Entertain yourself with drink instead of love.
(b) Do not drink or drown your wits. Nothing in between.
(c) Do not drink.
(d) Drink when you are with a different potential love.

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

4. Whose baby does Ovid suppose Corinna is carrying when she tries to get an abortion?
(a) Ovid's.
(b) Her husband's.
(c) Her other lover's.
(d) He doesn't know.

5. What does Ovid notice has changed in his lover when he kisses her in Amores 2:5?
(a) Her technique of kissing.
(b) How her clothes are laced up.
(c) How passionate her kisses are.
(d) The way her hair smells.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid ask Corinna to do in Amores 3:14?

2. What does Ovid say made Corinna popular in Amores 3:12?

3. According to Ovid, how much should you talk to a girl when you are leaving her?

4. What story does Ovid tell in Amores 3:6 in hopes of winning sympathy?

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

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