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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. Which of the following best summarizes a lot of Ovid's advice in The Art of Love book 3?

2. What does Ovid recommend regarding writing letters?

3. What advice does Ovid give particularly to lovers who are poor?

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

5. When does Ovid employ flattery to keep a lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

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

4. Does Ovid ever recommend crying? When?

5. What does Ovid recommend to women do regarding any personal flaws they might have?

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

7. What activity does Ovid say is guaranteed to "let Cupid in" when he is not wanted? What does he recommend as an alternative?

8. What does Ovid recommend doing should your lover fall ill?

9. What does Ovid say about beauty in The Art of Love book 2? What advice does he give to prepare for this?

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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