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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What spills out of the pig when the chef is ordered to cut it?
(a) Guts.
(b) Sausages and puddings.
(c) Colored water.
(d) Blood.

2. What happens to Encolpius when he cannot sexually perform with the beautiful woman a second time?
(a) He cries.
(b) He runs back to his boy lover.
(c) He is kicked out of town.
(d) He is beaten.

3. Who brings a witch to the woods to meet Encolpius?
(a) Circe.
(b) Proselenus.
(c) Oenothea.
(d) Chrysis.

4. Which character will portray a slave when the companions enter Croton?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Encolpius.
(c) Ascyltus.
(d) Eumolpus.

5. Which emperor had high literary ambitions?
(a) Nero.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Augustus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to rape Giton?

2. What combines "a moralistic and humorous melange of prose and verse"?

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

4. What is placed on top of a table by the priestess?

5. What are the two classes of people in Croton?

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