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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Puteoli.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who complains about the professors and all their empty rhetoric?
(a) Encolpius.
(b) Circe.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Giton.

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

4. What does the translator say he does not do?
(a) Read Greek well.
(b) Study more about Senca himself.
(c) Like borrowing copies.
(d) Fill in obviously missing gaps.

5. How does the argument between Encolpius and Ascyltus in the section called Puteoli end?
(a) With both of them being stabbed.
(b) Ascyltus is carried to a doctor.
(c) They collapse in laughter.
(d) Encolpius is carried to a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ascyltus accuse Encolpius of doing when Encolpius confronts him about something else?

2. Considering similar works of the same time period, what link was the author's satire obviously missing?

3. What details in "The Satyricon" will probably not surprise a modern audience?

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

5. A complaining student stresses that without adherence to the rules, what does the language face?

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