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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. Whose concerns does Ovid address first thing in The Cures for Love?
(a) Venus.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Women.
(d) His muse.

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

3. What does Ovid say about seducing the maid of the lady you are after?
(a) The maid's guilt will keep her from turner informer.
(b) All of the above.
(c) After the lady is secure, seduce the maid if you want.
(d) Do not seduce the maid to get to the lady.

4. Which of the following best characterizes Ovid's motivation for his manual on how to subdue love?
(a) Pity toward the unlucky in love.
(b) Generosity to mankind.
(c) Vengeance against love.
(d) Subversiveness to morality.

5. When does Ovid say is an appropriate time to make a definitive bold move on a girl?
(a) In the confusion of guests leaving a party.
(b) At the theater when there is still an act left.
(c) At her house as soon as her husband has left.
(d) As soon as possible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What trait does Ovid teach as important in the winning of the girl of one's choice?

3. What does Ovid encourage at parties?

4. Which of the following does Ovid recommend to help get over love?

5. When does Ovid employ flattery to keep a lover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Ovid give regarding the maids and servants of a lover?

2. What advice does Ovid have for men regarding their hair, body, and clothes?

3. Does Ovid ever recommend crying? When?

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

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

6. What does Ovid recommend doing should your lover fall ill?

7. Why does Ovid like to promise gifts?

8. What sort of language does Ovid recommend using when writing to a girl?

9. What places does Ovid recommend for finding women?

10. What point does Ovid make when he describes the affair of Mars and Venus being discovered and exposed by Vulcan? What does he recommend?

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