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

2. In Amores 2:6, what does the parrot show little interest in?
(a) Food.
(b) Attention.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Other birds.

3. What does Ovid say that soldiers have that he does not?
(a) An attractive physique.
(b) Money.
(c) A mean streak.
(d) A selfish ego.

4. What is the problem Ovid gives his lover instructions about in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) None of the above.
(b) His lover is being courted by a powerful man.
(c) His lover is with her husband at a party.
(d) His lover wants to run away from her home with him.

5. What is the horrible crime Ovid defines in Amores 2:2?
(a) Turning away a lover.
(b) Denying love.
(c) Embarrassing a woman.
(d) Bringing adulterous affairs to light.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times does Ovid marry?

3. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's poetry?

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

5. Who has died in Amores 3:9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of the relationship between Corinna and Ovid in Amores book 1? What is the major impediment that stands in their way?

2. What happens to Ovid after his banishment? How long does he live?

3. Does Ovid express which kind of woman is "his type?" If so, please describe.

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

5. In Amores 3:11, Ovid grapples with conflicting emotions regarding Corinna. What are they and why?

6. Who is Macer and what is Ovid's relationship with him?

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

8. What is Ovid's opinion of those who expose clandestine love affairs?

9. What does Ovid devote an entire poem to compare lovers to in Amores? Why are they similar?

10. How does Ovid embody the dilemma between writing love poems and writing tragedies in Amores Book 3?

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