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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Macer?
(a) Ovid's father.
(b) Ovid's master of education.
(c) The wealthy merchant that sent him to school.
(d) Ovid's school fellow.

2. Why is Ovid's father against Ovid becoming a poet?
(a) There is no money in it.
(b) Poetry is not a respected talent.
(c) He wants Ovid to take over the family business.
(d) Poets have a reputation as subversives.

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

4. In Amores 2:14, what practice does Ovid say could cause mankind to be extinct?
(a) Birth control.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Abstinence.

5. How long does Ovid's family live?
(a) They all die young.
(b) They all live reasonably long lives.
(c) Ovid dies a young man before his talents have totally matured.
(d) Ovid lives longer than all of his children.

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

7. Where is Ovid born?
(a) In Greece.
(b) In the southern part of France.
(c) Outside the city of Rome.
(d) In Rome.

8. What does Ovid do to defend his actions in Amores 1:7?
(a) Explains all lovers take risks.
(b) Cite instances of physical abuse in the gods.
(c) Explains love drives one to irrational actions.
(d) Criticise's his lover's attitude.

9. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?
(a) Religiosity is at an all time low.
(b) No one wants to lead or govern.
(c) Politics are seeped with treason.
(d) Adultery has grown to outrageous proportions.

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

11. What story does Ovid tell in Amores 3:6 in hopes of winning sympathy?
(a) The death of Tibullus.
(b) The story of a river that fell in love.
(c) The story of the Caesar's own marriage.
(d) The story of Achilles.

12. Who is Ovid trying to persuade to stay away in Amores 1:13?
(a) Aurora, the dawn.
(b) Corinna's husband.
(c) Cupid.
(d) His father from visiting.

13. What does the dream interpreter say Ovid's dream means?
(a) That his lover will soon leave him.
(b) That he should focus on his writing.
(c) That he is a puppet of the gods.
(d) That he mocks love.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

4. In Amores 3:3, what does Ovid say pretty girls should get away with?

5. What happens that Ovid regrets instantly in Amores 1:7?

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