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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. What does Ovid say women are expert at?

2. What does Ovid say about the characters of women?

3. How does Ovid recommend using your misfortunes to cure love?

4. Which of the following best characterizes the content of The Art of Love book 2?

5. How does Ovid feel about drunkenness?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

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

4. Does Ovid recommend seclusion as a cure for love? What does he say on the subject?

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

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

7. Does Ovid ever recommend crying? When?

8. What advice does Ovid give women regarding hair?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Ovid is a writer whose poetry is still being read two thousand years after he wrote it and people are still relating to it. Why is this?

Part 1. What is it about Ovid's writing that makes it timeless?

Part 2. What part of Ovid's poetry have you managed to relate to personally?

Part 3. Do you think Ovid's work will continue to be accessible to future generations?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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