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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: The Apocolocyntosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which student loses interest in the poetry recited by the teacher and leaves class to find a friend?
(a) Eumolphus.
(b) Ascyltus.
(c) Giton.
(d) Encolpius.

2. Where does the old woman take the two students she encounters?
(a) To the palace.
(b) To a brothel.
(c) To lunch.
(d) To the grotto.

3. How many of the animals that attack Encolpius does he actually kill?
(a) 1.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. Who does Encolpius find weeping as he leaves the place the old woman took him?
(a) Giton.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Ascyltus.
(d) The old woman.

5. Why was the author of "The Apocolocyntosis" exiled?
(a) He was accused of stealing.
(b) He was accused of adultery.
(c) He was accused of lying.
(d) He was accused of gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig saved?

2. What combines "a moralistic and humorous melange of prose and verse"?

3. What major key is the clue to the authorship of "The Apocolocyntosis"?

4. To where was the author of "The Apocolocyntosis" exiled?

5. Which emperor had high literary ambitions?

(see the answer key)

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