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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid compare resisting the powers of love to?
(a) A horse resisting its harness.
(b) Fighting back the tide.
(c) A bird deciding not to fly.
(d) A hermit closing his eyes to the world.

2. What is one of the clear causes of Ovid's banishment from Rome?
(a) His affair with the Caesar's wife.
(b) His father's execution for treason.
(c) His speeches against the caesar.
(d) His scandalous and immoral poetry.

3. In the third poem of Amores, what promise does Ovid make?
(a) To win the affection of the object of his desire.
(b) Not to stop until he has bedded a certain influential married woman.
(c) To always be honest and spurn deceit.
(d) Fidelity and eternal devotion.

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

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

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

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

8. In Amores 2:11, who is traveling?
(a) Corinna's husband.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Ovid's father.

9. What does Ovid ask Corinna to do in Amores 3:14?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Be faithful.
(c) Sleep with him one last night.
(d) For her to be discreet and hide her other affairs from him.

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

11. Which of the following best characterizes the leadership of the Roman Empire during Ovid's life?
(a) They are from Gaul.
(b) They combine political and military leadership.
(c) They are the strongest men in the country.
(d) They are wealthy merchants able to buy their way into power.

12. How much focus does Ovid put on poetry when he finishes his education?
(a) He continues to study it diligently even though he does not think he would ever use it.
(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 focuses all his attention on poetry.

13. According to Ovid, what happens when people resist the powers of love?
(a) Drowning in the sea.
(b) A much more thorough "going-over" than those who admit they are hooked.
(c) A life on land instead of in the skies.
(d) Isolation and denial.

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

15. In Amores 2:9, what does Ovid argue that he should quit?
(a) The field of love.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Taking recklass risks.
(d) Corinna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Corinna with in Amores 3:8 that Ovid finds especially hurtful?

2. In Amores 9B, which of the following does Ovid prefer?

3. How many times does Ovid marry?

4. Who does Ovid threaten with exposure if she denies him in Amores 2:8?

5. How does the competitor Ovid support do in the competition?

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