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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What career does Ovid's education meant to prepare him for?
(a) Ovid's education is in law so he could be a statesman.
(b) Ovid studies medicine to be a doctor.
(c) Ovid studies the classics so he could be a writer.
(d) Ovid studies business and trade so he could take over his father's empire.

2. Who has died in Amores 3:9?
(a) Tibullus, a great poet.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Ovid's father.
(d) A very popular beautiful woman.

3. What reason does Ovid give for his impotence in Amores 3:7?
(a) Stress.
(b) Expectations.
(c) Guilt.
(d) No reason.

4. What do people say about Ovid's speeches?
(a) His poetic ability is clear in them.
(b) They motivate the masses.
(c) They can bring peace between warring nations.
(d) They increase patriotism.

5. In Amores 2:6, what does the parrot show little interest in?
(a) Attention.
(b) Other birds.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Food.

6. What does Ovid say about Nape who is Corinna's handmaid?
(a) She is a great go-between.
(b) She has alterior motives.
(c) She meddles in affairs that are not hers.
(d) She is easy to deceive.

7. What is the problem Ovid gives his lover instructions about in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) None of the above.
(b) His lover wants to run away from her home with him.
(c) His lover is being courted by a powerful man.
(d) His lover is with her husband at a party.

8. What is the implied reason that Ovid does not have a military career?
(a) There is a medical reason he was unable to serve.
(b) He is too ambitious politically.
(c) Ovid did not want to become a soldier.
(d) His father is wealthy enough to buy him out of the duty.

9. Which of the following could be a quote from Amores 1:8?
(a) "A certain bitch, snake, hag."
(b) "But never stay angry too long. A festering quarrel can make permanent enemies."
(c) All of the above.
(d) "Stop worshipping genius, try generosity just for a change."

10. To whom is Ovid speaking in Amores 1:6 as he sits outside the door?
(a) Himself.
(b) The Porter.
(c) His lover.
(d) The gods.

11. What problem does Ovid have in Amores 2:10?
(a) He is too tired to respond to his lovers advances.
(b) He suspects Corinna is about to leave him.
(c) He has two lovers and he cannot choose whom he prefers.
(d) Corinna's husband suspects their affair.

12. What better part of himself does Ovid refer to in Amores 1:15?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His lover.
(c) His poetry.
(d) His love.

13. In Amores 9B, which of the following does Ovid prefer?
(a) To be dead.
(b) To sleep peacefully every night.
(c) To be alone.
(d) To be deceived by a mistress.

14. What argument does Ovid make for his case in Amores 1:10?
(a) His gifts are verses that immortalize beauty.
(b) Females of the animal kingdom do not fleece their males.
(c) All the above.
(d) If making love gives pleasure to both, why should she reap and he pay?

15. In Amores 2:17, what attribute of Corinna does Ovid say keeps him enslaved?
(a) Her innocence.
(b) Her passion for him.
(c) Her good heart.
(d) Her beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the clear causes of Ovid's banishment from Rome?

2. What keeps Ovid from writing the epic poem about warfare he sets out to write?

3. In Amores 1:6, what activity is Ovid engaged in?

4. Where is Ovid in Amores 3:13?

5. What does Ovid say that soldiers have that he does not?

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