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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 mocks love.
(d) That he is a puppet of the gods.

2. How does Ovid's first marriage end?
(a) He loses his wife and child in childbirth.
(b) Divorce after only a couple years.
(c) None of the above.
(d) His father casts out his wife after catching her in an affair.

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

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

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

6. 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) Secret signals for them to communicate.
(c) What living independently means.
(d) What to say to appear coy.

7. Who is Ovid telling to turn a blind eye about the affairs of his lover in Amores 2:2?
(a) The high priest.
(b) Venus.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The other affair of a married woman.

8. 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 nurtures his poetic talent on the side while studying for a lucrative career.
(c) He focuses all his attention on poetry.
(d) He has given up all hope of becoming a poet and does not think of it at all.

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

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

11. In Amores 3:11, Ovid claims, "Your morals turn me off, your body on." Which one does he say is likely to win out?
(a) His morals will decline to match his lust.
(b) His distaste for her personality.
(c) "Love" or her body.
(d) His morals will her reform her.

12. What advice is Ovid giving to men in Amores 3:4?
(a) To have mistresses.
(b) To never leave their wives side.
(c) To go on long campaigns of war.
(d) To not object to or try to control adulterous wives.

13. What happens that Ovid regrets instantly in Amores 1:7?
(a) He has just physically attacked his lover.
(b) He has just been caught by his lover's husband.
(c) He has just broken up with his lover.
(d) He has just said hurtful things to his lover.

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

15. What does Ovid bid farewell to at the end of Amores book 3?
(a) Rome.
(b) Elegies of love.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Sweet moments of passion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Ovid's father against Ovid becoming a poet?

3. What argument does Ovid make for his case in Amores 1:10?

4. What does Ovid compare in Amores 1:9?

5. In Amores 2:19, what does Ovid wish for in the end of Amores?

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