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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. How does Ovid feel about love charms and aphrodisiacs?
(a) They are an important tool to master.
(b) Some are beneficial, others useless.
(c) One should avoid all such nasty tricks.
(d) They can be useful when used with caution.

2. What trait does Ovid teach as important in the winning of the girl of one's choice?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Patience.
(c) Flexibility.
(d) Persistance.

3. If your love letters are met with rejection or resistance, what does Ovid recommend?
(a) Go by degrees and stages.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Continue to write and deliver love letters.
(d) Telling her that you hope she will read them some day.

4. When does Ovid employ flattery to keep a lover?
(a) Whenever possible, as long as it sounds sincere.
(b) Rarely so it remains effective.
(c) All the time and the more the better.
(d) Never, to keep her trying.

5. What did Vulcan gain by catching Venus and Mars together and exposing them?
(a) Nothing. It worsens his lot and he regrets it in the end.
(b) It humiliates the lovers into fidelity.
(c) It separates the lovers but he also loses his wife.
(d) It overwhelms his wife with guilt and makes an enemy of Mars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ovid say about seducing the maid of the lady you are after?

2. Which hairstyle does Ovid favor?

3. How does Ovid feel about using witchcraft to cure love?

4. Whose concerns does Ovid address first thing in The Cures for Love?

5. Which of the following does Ovid suggest is a bad idea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ovid say about beauty in The Art of Love book 2? What advice does he give to prepare for this?

2. Are Daedalus and his son successful in their flight? What happens?

3. What is Ovid referring to when he says "A fire's blown up by the wind, by the wind extinguished: a gentle breeze fans the flame, a harder gust puts it out?"

4. What does Ovid say about time apart in a relationship?

5. What does Ovid recommend doing with old letters from an affair you are trying to forget? What else does he say on the subject?

6. According to Ovid in The Art of Love book 2, what difference is there between being a wealthy lover and a poor one?

7. What does Ovid say about the way a woman walks and carries herself?

8. Why does Ovid like to promise gifts?

9. What advice does Apollo tell Ovid to pass on to everyone?

10. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

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