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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Ovid dream in Amores 3:5?

2. In Amores 2:10, how does Ovid say he would like to die?

3. What reason does Ovid give for his impotence in Amores 3:7?

4. What reasons doe his partner give for Ovid's impotence?

5. What is Ovid hoping will happen as he waits outside the door in Amores 1:6?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When and where was Ovid born? Where and why did his parents move when he was young?

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

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

5. Why is Ovid banished from Rome?

6. Why is Ovid waiting outside a door in Amores 1:6? What does he hope will happen?

7. Describe the personality of Ovid in the role of lover.

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

9. What reasons does Ovid give for wanting to be a ring on Corinna's finger?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout his poems Ovid uses the name of many gods. Write an essay about the Roman gods.

Part 1. What is the general deity structure of the Roman Gods during Ovid's life?

Part 2. Who are the primary gods during Ovid's life, and which ones does he name most frequently in his work?

Part 3. What effect does the relationship Roman's had with their gods change their lives?

Essay Topic 2

Summarize the advice that Ovid gives to men and/or women regarding what to do to be successful in obtaining and securing a lover.

Part 1. What suggestions does he make regarding appearance?

Part 2. What suggestions does he make regarding behavior?

Part 3. How accurate or valuable to you feel his advice is?

Part 4. Is any, most, or all of it still applicable today? What has changed and what hasn't?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that Ovid has not created a persona for his poems, what is the nature of the man we get to know through his poems?

Part 1. Is it likely that Ovid was writing through a persona or that his poems are from personal experience?

Part 2. What is his character like in the poems? Does it evolve?

Part 3. What logical life history or situation can explain his changing nature?

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