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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a satirist, the author does not create a character that teaches a moral. What two words best describe the author's consideration of morality?
(a) Detached and uninterested.
(b) Humorous and political.
(c) Caring and concerned.
(d) Disgusting and unusual.

2. How does Ascyltus first suggest the friends end their fight over Giton?
(a) Leave him behind and move on.
(b) Let Giton pick.
(c) Turn him loose and see if he comes back.
(d) Cut him in half.

3. What combines "a moralistic and humorous melange of prose and verse"?
(a) Odyssey.
(b) Menippean satire.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Classical translation.

4. Why was Claudius previously given more time to live?
(a) To do good deeds.
(b) To grant citizenship to the few aliens still left.
(c) To make peace with the gods.
(d) To find his own salvation.

5. What is the cause of minor objections raised about the authorship of "The Apocolocyntosis"?
(a) Some say the author was not alive when it was written.
(b) Its strange title.
(c) No one recalls the younger writer.
(d) The author was not very bright.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Trimalchio's wife?

2. If the boy doesn't get presents from Encolpius, what does he threaten to do?

3. Which of the following statements has "The Satyricon" been called, now deemed to be worthy literature?

4. Who breaks down the door to an apartment?

5. How does the translator believe he approached the work?

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