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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose baby does Ovid suppose Corinna is carrying when she tries to get an abortion?
(a) Ovid's.
(b) Her other lover's.
(c) He doesn't know.
(d) Her husband's.

2. How does Ovid's first marriage end?
(a) None of the above.
(b) He loses his wife and child in childbirth.
(c) His father casts out his wife after catching her in an affair.
(d) Divorce after only a couple years.

3. How many times does Ovid marry?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. What victory does Ovid celebrate in Amores 2:12?
(a) The return of his health.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Corinna in his arms.
(d) The publication of his poems.

5. What spectacle does Ovid watch in Amores 3:2?
(a) Chariot races.
(b) The forum.
(c) Gladiators.
(d) The gods fighting for influence.

6. 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 affair with the Caesar's wife.
(d) His speeches against the caesar.

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

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

9. What does Ovid compare resisting the powers of love to?
(a) A bird deciding not to fly.
(b) A hermit closing his eyes to the world.
(c) A horse resisting its harness.
(d) Fighting back the tide.

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

11. Why does Ovid berate the writing tablet in Amores 1:12?
(a) It is not big enough to hold everything he wants to say.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Corinna returns it to him, saying she cannot meet him today.
(d) His chalk verses are rubbed off.

12. When does Ovid marry for the first time?
(a) As soon as he finishes his education.
(b) When he is settled into his career.
(c) When he is only a teenager.
(d) When he turns forty.

13. What advice is Ovid giving to men in Amores 3:4?
(a) To have mistresses.
(b) To go on long campaigns of war.
(c) To never leave their wives side.
(d) To not object to or try to control adulterous wives.

14. In Amores 2:6, what does the parrot show little interest in?
(a) Attention.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Other birds.
(d) Food.

15. Who is arguing about Ovid in Amores 3:1?
(a) Corinna and Lucinda.
(b) Elegy and Corinna.
(c) Fate and Duty.
(d) Elegy and Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Amores 2:17, what attribute of Corinna does Ovid say keeps him enslaved?

2. What is Ovid angry at in Amores 3:6?

3. Who is Macer?

4. What argument does Ovid make for his case in Amores 1:10?

5. In Amores 2:5, what does Ovid witness his lover doing?

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