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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following can best be said about Ovid?
(a) He never will have had a satisfactory political career.
(b) His success is due soley to his family's wealth.
(c) Poetry is they only thing he was admired for.
(d) He enjoys some time with the reputation of being a good statesman and excellent poet.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid ask Corinna to do in Amores 3:14?

2. What time period does Ovid live in?

3. After the attempted abortion, what is Corinna's immediate state?

4. What does the dream interpreter say Ovid's dream means?

5. In Amores 1:6, what activity is Ovid engaged in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who dies in Amores 2? Does this character have a special ability?

2. Briefly describe Ovid's dream. What does the dream interpreter say it means?

3. Describe Ovid at the chariot races.

4. What is the event that happens to cause Ovid to first offer an elegy and then scorn regarding the writing tablet?

5. Why is Elegy lame and "short in one foot" in the beginning of Amores book 2?

6. Why is Ovid waiting outside a door in Amores 1:6? What does he hope will happen?

7. Describe the personality of Ovid in the role of lover.

8. What happens when Corinna gets pregnant? Whose child is it?

9. Does Ovid experience success as a statesman or a poet during his lifetime? Explain.

10. When and where was Ovid born? Where and why did his parents move when he was young?

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