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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. What does Ovid say that soldiers have that he does not?
(a) A mean streak.
(b) An attractive physique.
(c) Money.
(d) A selfish ego.

2. What does Ovid bid farewell to at the end of Amores book 3?
(a) Corinna.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sweet moments of passion.
(d) Elegies of love.

3. In Amores 1:6, what activity is Ovid engaged in?
(a) Begging his lover to let him come to her.
(b) A nightime vigil outside his lovers door as he hopes to be let in.
(c) Dressing for a social occasion.
(d) Entreating the gods to bring his lover to him.

4. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's lover in the fourth poem of Amores Book I?
(a) Already a willing accomplice.
(b) A chaste woman resisting her feelings.
(c) An impassioned naive girl.
(d) A brazen woman with no regard for the opinion of those around her.

5. Which member of the arguing pair squabbling for his attention does Ovid choose?
(a) Fate.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Corinna.
(d) Elegy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Ovid's family live?

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

3. Who is Macer?

4. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's poetry?

5. What reasons doe his partner give for Ovid's impotence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe Ovid's dream. What does the dream interpreter say it means?

2. What is Ovid's opinion of those who expose clandestine love affairs?

3. What does Ovid say causes him to turn cold toward Corinna? What is it about her that he does not like?

4. Does Ovid plan or try to join the military? Why or why not?

5. Why is Ovid banished from Rome?

6. Explain the incident with Cypassis who is Corinna's lady maid.

7. What reasons does Ovid give for wanting to be a ring on Corinna's finger?

8. Why is Ovid waiting outside a door in Amores 1:6? What does he hope will happen?

9. Does Ovid experience success as a statesman or a poet during his lifetime? Explain.

10. Does Ovid express which kind of woman is "his type?" If so, please describe.

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