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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 is given regarding laughing?
(a) Learn how to do it without opening your mouth too wide.
(b) Do not bray or go cross-eyed.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Keep your teeth concealed behind your lips.

2. Where does Ovid recommend that a person start his or her quest for love?
(a) Amid their personal acquaintances.
(b) The public theater.
(c) At parties.
(d) By stern self-reflection.

3. After the theater, where does Ovid recommend looking for a mistress?
(a) At the races.
(b) At political forums.
(c) At family functions.
(d) At the market.

4. What does Ovid mean when he says, "You get the best vintage from well-cared for grapes?"
(a) Prioritzing a relationship above all else will make it last.
(b) Women should be attentive to their appearance.
(c) By eating healthy and excercising, women will preserve themselves into old age.
(d) None of the above.

5. How does Ovid feel about using witchcraft to cure love?
(a) He thinks it is usable as a last resort.
(b) He is definitely against it.
(c) He thinks it is effective if believed in.
(d) He is all for absolutely anything that might help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid liken love to?

2. What does Ovid recommend as an effective way to rekindle the passion of a lover that has cooled?

3. How does Ovid feel about drunkenness?

4. Which fine art does Ovid recommend attending while trying to cure a love?

5. How does Ovid feel about love charms and aphrodisiacs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ovid say about the way a woman walks and carries herself?

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

3. Are Daedalus and his son successful in their flight? What happens?

4. What element does Ovid say is most important when playing games? Why?

5. What does Ovid recommend doing with old letters from an affair you are trying to forget? What else does he say on the subject?

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

7. Summarize the story of Procris and Cephalus. What point does Ovid make?

8. What advice does Ovid give women regarding hair?

9. According to Ovid in The Art of Love book 2, what difference is there between being a wealthy lover and a poor one?

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

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