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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A complaining student stresses that without adherence to the rules, what does the language face?
(a) Silence.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Death.
(d) No meaning.

2. In response to the complaint about professors, the teacher recites lines written by whom?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Lucilius.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Venus.

3. How does the Trimalchio arrive at the dinner table?
(a) He is carried in and placed at the table.
(b) Six old ladies carry him in.
(c) He swings in on a vine.
(d) A eunuch piggy-backs him to his spot.

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

5. What cuts Eumolpus' forehead?
(a) A jug.
(b) A razor.
(c) A sword.
(d) Glass.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the poem about that the teacher recites in Puteoli?

3. Where does Encolpius want to stab Eumolpus?

4. Which instructor developed proper language skills in his students?

5. Who is thrown overboard and sucked under by the current in Eumolpus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Trimalchio and his wife, Fortunata, fight at the dinner?

2. What points to Titus Petronius as the author of "The Satyricon" other than writing style and language?

3. How does Petronius treat sordid events in his story? How would other writers from the era have treated them?

4. Why does Ascyltus call Encolpius a hypocrite? Explain the situation.

5. What job does Encolpius have in Pergamum and why does he accept it?

6. What is Ascyltus' response when Encolpius confronts him about the attempted rape of Giton?

7. What is the relationship between Giton and Encolpius?

8. What joke involving a pig does Trimalchio play on his guests?

9. Explain Encolpius and Ascyltus' fight over Giton after their dinner at Trimalchio's.

10. What link does Petronius fail to make in "The Satyricon"?

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