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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who complains about the professors and all their empty rhetoric?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Circe.
(c) Giton.
(d) Encolpius.

3. What title did the author hold in the emperor's court?
(a) Official Historian.
(b) Arbiter of Elegance.
(c) Joker and Comedian.
(d) Knight of the Roundtable.

4. What do Ascyltus and Encolpius try to sell?
(a) A cloak.
(b) A goat.
(c) Giton.
(d) A bag.

5. What is the poem about that the teacher recites in Puteoli?
(a) The value of teachers and that they should be respected.
(b) Bad parents.
(c) Bad students.
(d) The importance of discipline in writing and the arts.

6. What decorates the platter of delicacies that the slaves bring to the table?
(a) Roman designs.
(b) Zodiac signs.
(c) Flowers.
(d) The Greek letter Tau.

7. What is a eunuch?
(a) A horse with a horn.
(b) A court magician.
(c) A castrated man.
(d) A bottle maker.

8. What does Trimalchio order for the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig?
(a) He is stoned.
(b) He is whipped.
(c) He is stripped.
(d) He is fired.

9. Which instructor developed proper language skills in his students?
(a) Encolpius.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Euripides.

10. What fine must Tryphaena pay if she forces Giton into sexual acts?
(a) 1000 sesterces.
(b) 1000 pecos.
(c) 2000 coins.
(d) 200 denarii.

11. Who says that love and art are on the decline because people care more about money?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Ascyltus.
(d) Eumolpus.

12. Who is Trimalchio's wife?
(a) Circe.
(b) Fortunata.
(c) Providence.
(d) He has no wife.

13. Who tries to commit suicide by slashing his throat?
(a) Eumolpus.
(b) Giton.
(c) Ascyltus.
(d) Encolpius.

14. What language do the actors use in their presentation at the dinner party?
(a) Greek.
(b) English.
(c) Roman.
(d) Latin.

15. What color coat does Trimalchio wear to the dinner party?
(a) Red.
(b) Silver.
(c) Purple.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Considering similar works of the same time period, what link was the author's satire obviously missing?

2. What method of translation does the translator use in retelling "The Satyricon"?

3. What details in "The Satyricon" will probably not surprise a modern audience?

4. Niceros tells a story about what creature?

5. Who bruises Trimalchio's arm?

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