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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: The Apocolocyntosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Trimalchio have to live?
(a) About one week if the astrology is right.
(b) Ten years, 2 months and four days.
(c) Six months at best.
(d) Thirty years, four months and two days.

2. What details in "The Satyricon" will probably not surprise a modern audience?
(a) Sexual details.
(b) Bar hopping.
(c) Crime.
(d) Crooked politicians.

3. What role does Giton play when Ascyltus and Encolpius attend the special dinner?
(a) Their son.
(b) Their chauffeur.
(c) Their lover.
(d) Their butler.

4. Why do people throw stones at Eumolpus?
(a) He is friends with Encolpius.
(b) They're tired of listening to his poetry.
(c) They think he stole something from the museum.
(d) He is an enemy of Ascyltus.

5. Why does the priestess fall?
(a) Her feet were hot.
(b) She is clumsy.
(c) Giton knocked her down.
(d) Her stool breaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character will portray a slave when the companions enter Croton?

2. How do the friends actually end their fight over Giton?

3. How is the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig saved?

4. What disguise do Encolpius and Giton use to escape from Lichas and Tryphaena?

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

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