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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 is a puppet of the gods.
(c) That he mocks love.
(d) That he should focus on his writing.

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

3. In Amores 9B, which of the following does Ovid prefer?
(a) To sleep peacefully every night.
(b) To be alone.
(c) To be deceived by a mistress.
(d) To be dead.

4. What does Ovid say made Corinna popular in Amores 3:12?
(a) Her loose morals.
(b) Her husband's money.
(c) Her exquisite beauty.
(d) His poems.

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

6. 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) He must write something the people of Rome want to read.
(c) It is the topic of caesars and leaders, and he is but a man.
(d) Cupid shoots him with an arrow.

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

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

9. What does Ovid object to and says cools his passion?
(a) His lover asking for gifts.
(b) His lover continuing relations with her husband.
(c) His lover taunting him.
(d) His lover wearing too much makeup.

10. Why does Ovid berate the writing tablet in Amores 1:12?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Corinna returns it to him, saying she cannot meet him today.
(c) It is not big enough to hold everything he wants to say.
(d) His chalk verses are rubbed off.

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

12. To whom is Ovid speaking in Amores 1:6 as he sits outside the door?
(a) The gods.
(b) Himself.
(c) His lover.
(d) The Porter.

13. What is Ovid hoping will happen as he waits outside the door in Amores 1:6?
(a) Corinna's husband to leave.
(b) The doorbolt to slide free.
(c) Corinna to come home.
(d) Corinna to answer him.

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

15. What keeps Ovid and Corinna apart in Amores 3:10?
(a) Her husband back from campaign.
(b) The rites for Ceres' yearly festival.
(c) Corinna falls ill.
(d) They fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ovid born?

2. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

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

4. What advice is Ovid giving to men in Amores 3:4?

5. In Amores 2:9, what does Ovid argue that he should quit?

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