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

2. Who breaks down the door to an apartment?
(a) Sibyl.
(b) Giton.
(c) Ascyltus.
(d) Encolpius.

3. Who said that teachers would be the only ones in school if they are unable to engage the students?
(a) Cicero.
(b) Ascyltus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Euripides.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does a complaining student say happens to children who start school too young?

4. Which of the following statements has "The Satyricon" been called, now deemed to be worthy literature?

5. What is the poem about that the teacher recites in Puteoli?

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