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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the translator believe he approached the work?
(a) He is a professional and filled in all the gaps.
(b) He did the best he could.
(c) Carefully with respect to the original.
(d) He totally rewrote the story based on historical clues.

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

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

4. Who does Ascyltus accuse of being a hypocrite?
(a) Quartilla.
(b) The old woman.
(c) Encolpius.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. What is the poem about that the teacher recites in Puteoli?
(a) Bad parents.
(b) The value of teachers and that they should be respected.
(c) The importance of discipline in writing and the arts.
(d) Bad students.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do scholars see "The Satyricon" today?

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

3. Where does the old woman take the two students she encounters?

4. Which instructor developed proper language skills in his students?

5. What method of translation does the translator use in retelling "The Satyricon"?

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