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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Encolpius promise to give the boy that he simply cannot deliver?
(a) A trip to the museum.
(b) A thoroughbred.
(c) A new book.
(d) Gold.

2. What details in "The Satyricon" will probably not surprise a modern audience?
(a) Crooked politicians.
(b) Bar hopping.
(c) Crime.
(d) Sexual details.

3. Who tries to rape Giton?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Ascyltus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Euripides.

4. What major key is the clue to the authorship of "The Apocolocyntosis"?
(a) Its love of Nero.
(b) Its criticism of Claudius.
(c) Its vulgarity.
(d) Its political satire.

5. What is placed on top of a table by the priestess?
(a) Hot coals.
(b) Food for a feast.
(c) Herbs for mixing a remedy.
(d) A pig.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the translator deal with the problem he notes in his translation of "The Satyricon"?

2. What do Ascyltus and Encolpius try to sell?

3. Where does Encolpius want to stab Eumolpus?

4. Who is Encolpius' teacher at the beginning of "The Satyricon"?

5. Why, according to the translator, is "The Satyricon" difficult to classify?

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