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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 recommend to keep women invested in a relationship?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Insinuate you have other lovers.
(c) Seem only partially interested.
(d) Promise gifts but not give them.

2. What does Ovid mean when he says, "You get the best vintage from well-cared for grapes?"
(a) Prioritzing a relationship above all else will make it last.
(b) None of the above.
(c) By eating healthy and excercising, women will preserve themselves into old age.
(d) Women should be attentive to their appearance.

3. 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.

4. In Amores 2:18, what does Ovid claim to be unable to do?
(a) Ever give his heart entirely.
(b) Eject Corinna.
(c) Love a woman other than Corinna.
(d) See anything bad in Corinna.

5. Which of the following best summarizes a lot of Ovid's advice in The Art of Love book 3?
(a) Know yourself and make the most of how you are.
(b) Men are simple and easily controlled.
(c) Love is a game to be played.
(d) Make use of youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the implied reason that Ovid does not have a military career?

2. What is the problem Ovid gives his lover instructions about in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

3. Which fine art does Ovid recommend attending while trying to cure a love?

4. What advice is given regarding laughing?

5. What does Ovid say about keeping a lover once you have won her?

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