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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid say is true of love?
(a) Lovers get less pleasure than pain. They should steel their hearts for hardship.
(b) Once mastered, love is as natural as breathing.
(c) Love is a game and should not be taken seriously.
(d) Love is an art and requires natural talent.

2. What does Ovid say about keeping a lover once you have won her?
(a) It is not important.
(b) It is the hardest task of all.
(c) It is as tricky as winning her.
(d) It will take care of itself.

3. After the theater, where does Ovid recommend looking for a mistress?
(a) At political forums.
(b) At the market.
(c) At family functions.
(d) At the races.

4. What does Ovid say is the secret to finesse at lovemaking?
(a) Sincerity.
(b) Passion.
(c) Technique.
(d) Experience.

5. When does Ovid employ flattery to keep a lover?
(a) Whenever possible, as long as it sounds sincere.
(b) All the time and the more the better.
(c) Rarely so it remains effective.
(d) Never, to keep her trying.

6. How does Ovid feel about drunkenness?
(a) Drunkeness turns your thoughts into action.
(b) It can harm you but feigning it can be useful.
(c) Drunkeness is courage for the timid.
(d) Nobody loves a drunk, so do not be one.

7. When does Ovid recommend is the optimal time to get out of a bad love affair?
(a) When you no longer have the upper hand.
(b) After the novelty has worn off.
(c) At the very beginning before feelings grow.
(d) None of the above.

8. What kind of gifts does Ovid say you should give to keep your lover?
(a) No gifts should be given.
(b) The costlier gifts the better.
(c) Small gifts that are chosen with skill and discretion.
(d) Whatever she asks for.

9. What does Ovid suggest can keep passion strong?
(a) Some inaccessability.
(b) Well-maintained looks.
(c) Clear communication.
(d) A feisty temper.

10. How does Ovid explain the need for a book on the Cures for Love?
(a) It will not undo the work of previous poems.
(b) All of the above.
(c) To save those that would perish from love.
(d) To keep blood off Cupid's hands.

11. What does Ovid say of "ladies plucking their first gray hairs"?
(a) They have grown wise to his tricks and are difficult to woo.
(b) They are a field worth sowing.
(c) Wisdom makes passion grow dim.
(d) They no longer have the ardor for best lovemaking.

12. When does Ovid say is an appropriate time to make a definitive bold move on a girl?
(a) At her house as soon as her husband has left.
(b) In the confusion of guests leaving a party.
(c) As soon as possible.
(d) At the theater when there is still an act left.

13. How does Ovid feel about kissing and telling?
(a) Maintain a playful air about it.
(b) It will bolster your reputation as a lover.
(c) Do not do it.
(d) Always say good things about your lover and she will forgive you.

14. Who is Ovid's target audience when writing The Art of Love Book 3?
(a) Ordinary women.
(b) Beautiful women in order to keep control of their affairs.
(c) Young women that are first starting their adult lives.
(d) Everyone who will listen.

15. What did Vulcan gain by catching Venus and Mars together and exposing them?
(a) It humiliates the lovers into fidelity.
(b) It overwhelms his wife with guilt and makes an enemy of Mars.
(c) Nothing. It worsens his lot and he regrets it in the end.
(d) It separates the lovers but he also loses his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe Ovid recommend doing if a girl asks you a question about a float in a parade and you do not know the answer?

2. Which fine art does Ovid recommend attending while trying to cure a love?

3. What does Ovid say about being around people in love?

4. What does Ovid often happens with feigned passion?

5. What does Ovid say women are expert at?

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