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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 advice is given regarding laughing?

2. Which of the following best represents Ovid's recommendations for makeup?

3. What does Ovid recommend NOT doing at night?

4. What does Ovid say of "ladies plucking their first gray hairs"?

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

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 does Ovid say about time apart in a relationship?

3. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

4. How would you describe Ovid's general approach to women as portrayed in The Art of Love?

5. What is Ovid referring to when he says "A fire's blown up by the wind, by the wind extinguished: a gentle breeze fans the flame, a harder gust puts it out?"

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

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

8. What sort of language does Ovid recommend using when writing to a girl?

9. What advice does Apollo tell Ovid to pass on to everyone?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize the advice that Ovid gives to men and women regarding what to do to "cure" themselves of love.

Part 1. What advice does he give?

Part 2. How accurate or valuable to you feel his advice is?

Part 3. Is any, most, or all of it still applicable today? What has changed and what hasn't?

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of his book, Ovid follows classical tradition and evokes his muse. Write an essay about muses.

Part 1. What is a muse?

Part 2. Who are the nine muses and what does each of them do?

Part 3. What relationship do poets like Ovid have with the muses?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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