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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dinner with Trimalchio.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In response to the complaint about professors, the teacher recites lines written by whom?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Lucilius.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Venus.

2. How is the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig saved?
(a) His children ask for their father not to be killed.
(b) Trimalchio gets tired of dealing with him.
(c) Guests plead for his mercy.
(d) His wife begs.

3. What will happen to Trimalchio's slaves when he dies?
(a) They will be killed.
(b) They will take turns standing at his tomb.
(c) They will be freed.
(d) They will be transferred to his wife.

4. Who wrote "The Satyricon?"
(a) J.P. Sullivan.
(b) Claudius.
(c) Titus Petronius.
(d) Seneca.

5. When the friends part in Puteoli, who does Giton go with?
(a) The old woman.
(b) Alone.
(c) Ascyltus.
(d) Encolpius.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the translator suspect the modern reader will view the sexual nature of "The Satyricon"?

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

3. How does the decorated platter play into the entertainment for the evening?

4. Who does Encolpius find weeping as he leaves the place the old woman took him?

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

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