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

2. Which of the following Adages does Ovid agree with in The Art of Love?

3. Where does Ovid recommend that a person start his or her quest for love?

4. How does Ovid feel about drunkenness?

5. What did Vulcan gain by catching Venus and Mars together and exposing them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Ovid feel about flattery?

5. Does Ovid recommend picturing the person you are trying to get over with a new love? Why or why not?

6. Does Ovid ever recommend crying? When?

7. What advice does Ovid give regarding makeup? What does he say about how much to wear and when to apply it?

8. What does Ovid recommend your behavior be like towards a lover you are trying to get over?

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

10. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many social mores regarding sexuality that from Rome in Ovid's time that are similar to those in America in the 1960's. Discuss those social mores.

Part 1. What part of the social mores of the two eras are worthy of comparison?

Part 2. How are they similar? How are they different?

Part 3. Has there been any "progress" or "evolution" since Rome in 2 AD or are we essentially the same?

Essay Topic 2

Ovid's erotic poems are written in elegiac couplets. Discuss this choice of meter form.

Part 1. What are the component parts of meter?

Part 2. What is a system of scansion and how is it used?

Part 3. What are elegiac couplets? What problems are there in translating this meter from the Latin?

Essay Topic 3

Many of the characters that Ovid cites have complicated stories. Do any of the gods or heroes have a story that particularly intrigues you? The relationship between Achilles and Briseis? The affair of Mars and Venus? The poet Tibullus? The god Cupid? Choose a figure that Ovid cites that interests you and research further into their circumstance and story.

Part 1. Who have you chosen to write about? Why were you attracted to learn more this particular story?

Part 2. Summarize the information you have researched about this figure.

Part 3. What significance does this story or person have?

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