View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid notice has changed in his lover when he kisses her in Amores 2:5?
(a) How her clothes are laced up.
(b) How passionate her kisses are.
(c) Her technique of kissing.
(d) The way her hair smells.

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

3. What advice does Ovid overhear a person giving Corinna in Amores 1:8?
(a) How to make herself more attractive.
(b) How to end the relationship with Ovid.
(c) That she had better no entertain any other lovers.
(d) How to use love for financial advantage.

4. What is one of the clear causes of Ovid's banishment from Rome?
(a) His scandalous and immoral poetry.
(b) His affair with the Caesar's wife.
(c) His father's execution for treason.
(d) His speeches against the caesar.

5. Whose baby does Ovid suppose Corinna is carrying when she tries to get an abortion?
(a) Ovid's.
(b) Her husband's.
(c) He doesn't know.
(d) Her other lover's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Corinna with in Amores 3:8 that Ovid finds especially hurtful?

2. What class is Ovid considered?

3. In Amores 2:6, what does the parrot show little interest in?

4. Why does Corinna's hair fall out?

5. How many times does Ovid marry?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Ovid at the chariot races.

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

6. What does Ovid say about abortion?

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

8. In Amores book 3, why does Ovid regret writing elegies of Corinna and her beauty?

9. What does Dipsas tell Corinna?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 698 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample