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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. 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) Caring and concerned.
(c) Disgusting and unusual.
(d) Humorous and political.

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

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

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

5. What spills out of the pig when the chef is ordered to cut it?
(a) Sausages and puddings.
(b) Colored water.
(c) Guts.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the translator deal with the problem he notes in his translation of "The Satyricon"?

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

3. How does the translator suspect the modern reader will view the sexual nature of "The Satyricon"?

4. Who breaks down the door to an apartment?

5. How did earlier readers describe the sexual nature of "The Satyricon"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the egg delicacy served after Trimalchio arrives.

2. What character fault does Eumolpus have and how does Encolpius try to help him overcome it?

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

4. Into what genre does "The Satyricon" clearly fit? Why?

5. What is the accountant's role at the dinner?

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

7. Who does Encolpius want to stab in the spleen and why?

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

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

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

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