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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 the Trimalchio arrive at the dinner table?
(a) Six old ladies carry him in.
(b) A eunuch piggy-backs him to his spot.
(c) He is carried in and placed at the table.
(d) He swings in on a vine.

2. What is inside the egg that is served at the dinner party?
(a) Fig peckers.
(b) Gold coins.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Chocolate.

3. How do the friends actually end their fight over Giton?
(a) They let Giton pick.
(b) They cut him in half.
(c) They kick him out.
(d) They kill him.

4. How does the translator believe he approached the work?
(a) He totally rewrote the story based on historical clues.
(b) He is a professional and filled in all the gaps.
(c) He did the best he could.
(d) Carefully with respect to the original.

5. Who tries to commit suicide by slashing his throat?
(a) Ascyltus.
(b) Giton.
(c) Eumolpus.
(d) Encolpius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who translated "The Satyricon"?

2. Who is the narrator of "The Satyricon"?

3. How does the translator suspect the modern reader will view the sexual nature of "The Satyricon"?

4. What does Encolpius do at night when the boy he tutors falls asleep?

5. What role does Giton play when Ascyltus and Encolpius attend the special dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ascyltus call Encolpius a hypocrite? Explain the situation.

2. What link does Petronius fail to make in "The Satyricon"?

3. Who does Encolpius meet at a museum and what relationship develops between the two people?

4. Why, according to Eumolpus, is love and art on the decline?

5. Who is Psyche and what is her role in the section of the story called "Puteoli"?

6. Briefly tell the werewolf story.

7. Why does Eumoplus offer to be Giton's guardian? What else does he offer and what does he want in return?

8. Who does Encolpius want to stab in the spleen and why?

9. What about "The Satyricon" resulted in it being viewed as inferior literature in the past?

10. What was Petronius' title in the emperor's court and what significance was the title?

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