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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, The Amores : Chapter 1, Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What career does Ovid's education meant to prepare him for?
(a) Ovid studies the classics so he could be a writer.
(b) Ovid studies medicine to be a doctor.
(c) Ovid's education is in law so he could be a statesman.
(d) Ovid studies business and trade so he could take over his father's empire.

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

3. Who is Macer?
(a) Ovid's school fellow.
(b) The wealthy merchant that sent him to school.
(c) Ovid's master of education.
(d) Ovid's father.

4. What does Ovid do to defend his actions in Amores 1:7?
(a) Criticise's his lover's attitude.
(b) Cite instances of physical abuse in the gods.
(c) Explains love drives one to irrational actions.
(d) Explains all lovers take risks.

5. Which of the following can best be said about Ovid?
(a) He enjoys some time with the reputation of being a good statesman and excellent poet.
(b) He never will have had a satisfactory political career.
(c) Poetry is they only thing he was admired for.
(d) His success is due soley to his family's wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ovid's father against Ovid becoming a poet?

2. What are many of the instructions Ovid gives his lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?

3. In relation to politics, what is Ovid good at?

4. Who does the poet overhear speaking with Corinna in Amores 1:8?

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

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