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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a complaining student say happens to children who start school too young?
(a) The learn more.
(b) They become superior adults.
(c) They get out and can't find a job.
(d) They become inferior adults.

2. Who had already sneaked out of class before the rant about rhetoric?
(a) Giton.
(b) Ascyltus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Encolpius.

3. Who throws rocks at Eumolpus at the end of the chapter called The Road to Croton?
(a) No one.
(b) The townspeople.
(c) Giton.
(d) Encolpius.

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

5. What is the subject of the poem recited at the end of The Road to Croton?
(a) An epic tale of the companions.
(b) Greek history.
(c) An ocean and shipwreck adventure.
(d) Roman history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is inside the egg that is served at the dinner party?

2. Who is Circe's maid?

3. Who translated "The Satyricon"?

4. Why do the people of Croton immediately begin to cater to one of the companions?

5. How much "The Apocolocyntosis" is missing from this translation?

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