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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Augustus's daughter Julia reaches adulthood, what does she gain notoriety for?
(a) Marrying the caesar who is her stepfather.
(b) Her subversive political nature.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Her ability as an orator.

4. What does Ovid say that soldiers have that he does not?
(a) A selfish ego.
(b) An attractive physique.
(c) A mean streak.
(d) Money.

5. Whose baby does Ovid suppose Corinna is carrying when she tries to get an abortion?
(a) Ovid's.
(b) Her husband's.
(c) Her other lover's.
(d) He doesn't know.

6. When does Ovid marry for the first time?
(a) As soon as he finishes his education.
(b) When he is settled into his career.
(c) When he turns forty.
(d) When he is only a teenager.

7. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) A brazen woman with no regard for the opinion of those around her.
(b) Already a willing accomplice.
(c) An impassioned naive girl.
(d) A chaste woman resisting her feelings.

8. Does Ovid have children?
(a) He had several stepchildren.
(b) Yes, he and his third wife had two children.
(c) Yes, he had eight children from his various marriages.
(d) Yes, he had one daughter from his second marriage.

9. In Amores 2:15, what item does Ovid wish he was?
(a) Corinna's undergarments.
(b) A flower in Corinna's hair.
(c) A ring on Corinna's finger.
(d) The sheets on Corinna's bed.

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

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

12. What time period does Ovid live in?
(a) The second century.
(b) Around the time of Christ.
(c) The 1500s.
(d) During the reign of Julius Caesar.

13. Who does Ovid threaten with exposure if she denies him in Amores 2:8?
(a) Corinna's lady maid, Cypassis.
(b) Caesar's daughter.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Corinna's best friend.

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

15. Which member of the arguing pair squabbling for his attention does Ovid choose?
(a) Elegy.
(b) Corinna.
(c) Fate.
(d) Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the horrible crime Ovid defines in Amores 2:2?

2. What does Ovid compare resisting the powers of love to?

3. Where is Ovid born?

4. How does Ovid's first marriage end?

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

(see the answer keys)

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