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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid constantly get distracted by while in the arena?
(a) An incomplete verse he has left.
(b) Thoughts of Corinna.
(c) Pretty women passing by.
(d) The girl who accompanies him.

2. How many times does Ovid marry?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

4. Where is Ovid in Amores 3:13?
(a) In the bed of a woman that he does not like.
(b) On a boat off the shore.
(c) Juno's festival in Falerii.
(d) Traveling the countryside with Corinna.

5. In Amores 2:3, who is Ovid trying to convince to help him as a go-between?
(a) Corinna's sister.
(b) A messenger boy of Corinna's household.
(c) Corinna's best friend.
(d) A eunoch keeper.

6. In relation to politics, what is Ovid good at?
(a) Giving speeches.
(b) Making people trust him.
(c) Negotiation.
(d) Writing treaties.

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

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

9. What advice does Ovid overhear a person giving Corinna in Amores 1:8?
(a) How to make herself more attractive.
(b) How to use love for financial advantage.
(c) That she had better no entertain any other lovers.
(d) How to end the relationship with Ovid.

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

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

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

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

14. In Amores 2:10, how does Ovid say he would like to die?
(a) By the hand of his beloved.
(b) Peacefully in bed.
(c) Murdered tragically by a jealous husband.
(d) In a mid-coital act.

15. What keeps Ovid from writing the epic poem about warfare he sets out to write?
(a) He feels the topic too lofty for his verse.
(b) Cupid shoots him with an arrow.
(c) It is the topic of caesars and leaders, and he is but a man.
(d) He must write something the people of Rome want to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the third poem of Amores, what promise does Ovid make?

2. Which of the following could be a quote from Amores 1:8?

3. What problem does Ovid have in Amores 2:10?

4. What victory does Ovid celebrate in Amores 2:12?

5. In Amores 2:6, what does the parrot show little interest in?

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