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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the horrible crime Ovid defines in Amores 2:2?
(a) Embarrassing a woman.
(b) Turning away a lover.
(c) Bringing adulterous affairs to light.
(d) Denying love.

2. Why does Corinna's hair fall out?
(a) She uses too many rinses to color it.
(b) Her husband pulls it out in anger.
(c) She stops eating to lose weight.
(d) She falls ill.

3. What does Ovid's wife do when he is banished?
(a) Divorce him.
(b) Lobby for his return but stay in Rome.
(c) Annul the marriage.
(d) Accompany him in exile.

4. What is the forte of the parrot that dies in Amores 2:6?
(a) Catching nuts.
(b) Talking.
(c) His beautiful plumage.
(d) Swinging upside down.

5. What is Ovid tempted to do when good men die untimely deaths?
(a) Weep for the injustice of the world.
(b) See the execution of bad men.
(c) Make them immortal in his verses.
(d) Deny that the gods exist.

6. 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 business and trade so he could take over his father's empire.
(c) Ovid studies the classics so he could be a writer.
(d) Ovid studies medicine to be a doctor.

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 with her husband at a party.
(d) His lover is being courted by a powerful man.

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

9. What does Ovid define as his natural weapons in Amores 2:1?
(a) Threats and entreaties.
(b) Poetry and soft words.
(c) Expressions and entreaties.
(d) Looks and prowess.

10. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) What to say to appear coy.
(b) What living independently means.
(c) Secret signals for them to communicate.
(d) How to hold off an interested man.

11. How much focus does Ovid put on poetry when he finishes his education?
(a) He focuses all his attention on poetry.
(b) He has given up all hope of becoming a poet and does not think of it at all.
(c) He nurtures his poetic talent on the side while studying for a lucrative career.
(d) He continues to study it diligently even though he does not think he would ever use it.

12. Which of the following can best be said about Ovid?
(a) His success is due soley to his family's wealth.
(b) He enjoys some time with the reputation of being a good statesman and excellent poet.
(c) Poetry is they only thing he was admired for.
(d) He never will have had a satisfactory political career.

13. Who is Corinna with in Amores 3:8 that Ovid finds especially hurtful?
(a) A soldier.
(b) Another poet.
(c) A new very handsome lover.
(d) Her husband.

14. Who is Augustus?
(a) Caesar of Rome.
(b) A man of immense wealth and influence.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Ovid's great uncle.

15. In Amores 2:5, what does Ovid witness his lover doing?
(a) Lying to avoid him.
(b) Having an affair with another man.
(c) Saying bad things about him.
(d) Making love to her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid constantly get distracted by while in the arena?

2. In Amores 2:3, who is Ovid trying to convince to help him as a go-between?

3. In Amores 2:14, what practice does Ovid say could cause mankind to be extinct?

4. Who does the poet overhear speaking with Corinna in Amores 1:8?

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

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