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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author's task in his official title of the emperor's court?
(a) To judge and recommend elegant things.
(b) To make the emperor laugh.
(c) To weave tales.
(d) To officially record the emperor's speeches.

2. Who does Encolpius meet at a museum?
(a) Trimalchio.
(b) Ascyltus.
(c) Giton.
(d) Eumolpus.

3. Who made advances toward Ascyltus when he is with the old woman?
(a) A man.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A goddess in a cloak.
(d) The old woman.

4. Which student loses interest in the poetry recited by the teacher and leaves class to find a friend?
(a) Ascyltus.
(b) Eumolphus.
(c) Encolpius.
(d) Giton.

5. Where does the old woman take the two students she encounters?
(a) To a brothel.
(b) To the grotto.
(c) To the palace.
(d) To lunch.

6. What does Encolpius do at night when the boy he tutors falls asleep?
(a) Gambles in the marketplace.
(b) Works a second job.
(c) Fondles and kisses him.
(d) Reads private letters.

7. What disguise do Encolpius and Giton use to escape from Lichas and Tryphaena?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Magicians.
(c) Eunuchs.
(d) Wealthy men.

8. Considering similar works of the same time period, what link was the author's satire obviously missing?
(a) Man's failure was due to lack of morals.
(b) Man's failure was because of attempts to be moral.
(c) Man's failure was due to politicians.
(d) Man's failure was because of attempts to be immortal.

9. Who wrote the introduction to "The Satyricon"?
(a) The book's author.
(b) The emperor in the story.
(c) The book's translator.
(d) Priapus.

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

11. Who is Encolpius' teacher at the beginning of "The Satyricon"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Euripides.

12. When the friends part in Puteoli, who does Giton go with?
(a) Alone.
(b) Encolpius.
(c) The old woman.
(d) Ascyltus.

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

14. What kind of bottle is carried for the dinner host's urinary needs?
(a) A silver one.
(b) A gourd.
(c) A gold one.
(d) An urn.

15. What does the accountant read at the dinner party?
(a) Statistical and financial statements about Trimalchio's estate.
(b) A game of numbers and figures.
(c) A poem he wrote.
(d) A welcome to the guests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Encolpius find weeping as he leaves the place the old woman took him?

2. Who complains about the professors and all their empty rhetoric?

3. What role does Giton play when Ascyltus and Encolpius attend the special dinner?

4. How does the Trimalchio arrive at the dinner table?

5. Who said that teachers would be the only ones in school if they are unable to engage the students?

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