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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who especially likes the prospects the town has to offer to the companions?
(a) Encolpius.
(b) Ascyltus.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Eumolpus.

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

3. Who is thrown overboard and sucked under by the current in Eumolpus?
(a) Lichas.
(b) Eumolpus.
(c) Tryphaena.
(d) Giton.

4. Who ordered the exile of the author of "The Apocolocyntosis"?
(a) Nero.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Augustus.

5. When does Eumolpus run into a naked man looking for a boy?
(a) When arriving at the museum.
(b) When arriving at the bath.
(c) When leaving the musuem.
(d) When leaving the bath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that love and art are on the decline because people care more about money?

2. How did earlier readers describe the sexual nature of "The Satyricon"?

3. Who tries to rape Giton?

4. Why, according to the translator, is "The Satyricon" difficult to classify?

5. Who translated "The Satyricon"?

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