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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 2:19, what does Ovid wish for in the end of Amores?
(a) Corinna's husband to present more of a challenge.
(b) A new lover.
(c) The affair with Corinna to go on forever.
(d) Corinna to separate from her husband so they could marry.

2. What victory does Ovid celebrate in Amores 2:12?
(a) The publication of his poems.
(b) The return of his health.
(c) Corinna in his arms.
(d) None of the above.

3. According to Ovid, what happens when people resist the powers of love?
(a) A life on land instead of in the skies.
(b) A much more thorough "going-over" than those who admit they are hooked.
(c) Isolation and denial.
(d) Drowning in the sea.

4. Why does Corinna's hair fall out?
(a) Her husband pulls it out in anger.
(b) She falls ill.
(c) She stops eating to lose weight.
(d) She uses too many rinses to color it.

5. What story does Ovid tell in Amores 3:6 in hopes of winning sympathy?
(a) The death of Tibullus.
(b) The story of the Caesar's own marriage.
(c) The story of a river that fell in love.
(d) The story of Achilles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is arguing about Ovid in Amores 3:1?

2. In Amores 2:17, what attribute of Corinna does Ovid say keeps him enslaved?

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

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

5. In Amores 2:11, who is traveling?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ovid banished from Rome?

2. Describe Ovid at the chariot races.

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

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

5. What does Dipsas tell Corinna?

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

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

8. Why does Corinna's hair fall out? What does Ovid recommend as a solution?

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

10. Explain the incident with Cypassis who is Corinna's lady maid.

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