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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Art of Love : Chapter 1, Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ovid often happens with feigned passion?
(a) You see the other's faults more clearly.
(b) It turns into the real thing.
(c) It allows you more control.
(d) It makes both parties bitter.

2. In Amores 2:18, what does Ovid claim to be unable to do?
(a) See anything bad in Corinna.
(b) Eject Corinna.
(c) Ever give his heart entirely.
(d) Love a woman other than Corinna.

3. In Amores 2:14, what practice does Ovid say could cause mankind to be extinct?
(a) Birth control.
(b) Abortion.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Abstinence.

4. What is one of the clear causes of Ovid's banishment from Rome?
(a) His scandalous and immoral poetry.
(b) His father's execution for treason.
(c) His speeches against the caesar.
(d) His affair with the Caesar's wife.

5. What social trouble plagues the upper classes of Rome?
(a) Adultery has grown to outrageous proportions.
(b) Religiosity is at an all time low.
(c) No one wants to lead or govern.
(d) Politics are seeped with treason.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Macer?

2. To whom is Ovid speaking in Amores 1:6 as he sits outside the door?

3. In Amores 2:15, what item does Ovid wish he was?

4. What advice does Ovid overhear a person giving Corinna in Amores 1:8?

5. How many times does Ovid marry?

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