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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the introduction to "The Satyricon"?
(a) The emperor in the story.
(b) Priapus.
(c) The book's author.
(d) The book's translator.

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

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

4. Who is Encolpius' teacher at the beginning of "The Satyricon"?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. A complaining student stresses that without adherence to the rules, what does the language face?
(a) Death.
(b) Silence.
(c) Confusion.
(d) No meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Ascyltus and Encolpius acquire the item they try to sell?

2. When the friends part in Puteoli, who does Giton go with?

3. Who complains about the professors and all their empty rhetoric?

4. What problem does the translator note in his translation of "The Satyricon"?

5. Which emperor's court does the author serve under?

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