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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. What advice does Ovid give particularly to lovers who are poor?
(a) Keep peace with the mistress.
(b) Chose an undemanding lover.
(c) Learn carefully how to manipulate.
(d) Tolerate infidelity.

2. What does Ovid tell women about youth?
(a) It is the time to learn technique.
(b) Do not marry during your youth.
(c) It is overrated.
(d) It is fleeting and so you should enjoy it.

3. What is the first thing Ovid recommends that women in search of love to do?
(a) Display their beauty in public.
(b) Dress themselves to display wealth.
(c) Go places with women who have lovers.
(d) Go to fashionable parties.

4. What does Ovid recommend for those who are so soft that they cannot leave their lover?
(a) Give up the struggle. Let her consume your days and nights.
(b) Stay when you think you can leave her.
(c) Aim for a glut of passion until you are sick of the sight of her house.
(d) All of the above.

5. What does Ovid say about seducing the maid of the lady you are after?
(a) After the lady is secure, seduce the maid if you want.
(b) Do not seduce the maid to get to the lady.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The maid's guilt will keep her from turner informer.

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. What does Ovid say is true of love?

3. How does Ovid feel about using witchcraft to cure love?

4. What advice does Ovid give about handling your lover's shortcomings?

5. What kind of social life does Ovid recommend while trying to cure a love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ovid say about time apart in a relationship?

2. Why does Ovid like to promise gifts?

3. What does Ovid recommend doing should your lover fall ill?

4. Does Ovid ever recommend crying? When?

5. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

6. What activity does Ovid say is guaranteed to "let Cupid in" when he is not wanted? What does he recommend as an alternative?

7. What advice does Ovid have for men regarding their hair, body, and clothes?

8. What is Ovid's advice regarding how much to drink at parties?

9. What advice does Ovid give regarding the maids and servants of a lover?

10. What point does Ovid make when he describes the affair of Mars and Venus being discovered and exposed by Vulcan? What does he recommend?

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