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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. How does the translator believe he approached the work?
(a) He is a professional and filled in all the gaps.
(b) He did the best he could.
(c) He totally rewrote the story based on historical clues.
(d) Carefully with respect to the original.

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

3. How is the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig saved?
(a) Guests plead for his mercy.
(b) Trimalchio gets tired of dealing with him.
(c) His wife begs.
(d) His children ask for their father not to be killed.

4. Which emperor had high literary ambitions?
(a) Augustus.
(b) Claudius.
(c) Nero.
(d) Caesar.

5. Who does Ascyltus accuse of being a hypocrite?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Encolpius.
(c) The old woman.
(d) Quartilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Satyricon?"

2. Who is Trimalchio's wife?

3. What combines "a moralistic and humorous melange of prose and verse"?

4. What will happen to Trimalchio's slaves when he dies?

5. What does Trimalchio order for the chef who cooked the newly roasted pig?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the egg delicacy served after Trimalchio arrives.

2. Is Petronius a typical satirist for his era? Why or why not?

3. What is Menippean satire?

4. Why does Eumoplus offer to be Giton's guardian? What else does he offer and what does he want in return?

5. What happens when Encolpius and Ascyltus go to the marketplace to sell a stolen cloak?

6. What announcement does Trimalchio make at his dinner and what does the event seem to become?

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

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

9. Who is Psyche and what is her role in the section of the story called "Puteoli"?

10. In response to Encolpius' complaints about education, Agamemnon recites a few lines of poetry. Who wrote that poem and summarize it.

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