 - 1. Do any manuscripts of the Metamorphoses produced before the early medieval period survive?
A) Only fragments survive
B) No
C) Yes
D) Only one complete copy survives
- 2. From which centuries are the earliest fragments of the Metamorphoses poem?
A) 15th and 16th centuries
B) 7th and 8th centuries
C) 9th and 10th centuries
D) 11th and 12th centuries
- 3. When are the earliest complete manuscripts of the Metamorphoses from?
A) 10th century
B) 17th century
C) 9th century
D) 11th century
- 4. Approximately how many surviving manuscripts represent the Metamorphoses?
A) Exactly 45
B) Less than 50
C) More than 400
D) More than 100
- 5. What do the earliest three fragmentary copies of the Metamorphoses contain?
A) The entire poem
B) Portions of Books 1–3
C) Only the final book
D) Portions of Books 4–6
- 6. Which ancient work suffered an ignominious fate unlike the Metamorphoses?
A) Ovide Moralisé
B) Teubner series
C) After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
D) Medea
- 7. Who was the 17th-century Dutch scholar influential in the poem's manuscript tradition?
A) Arthur Golding
B) William S. Anderson
C) Nikolaes Heinsius
D) R. J. Tarrant
- 8. During which years did Nikolaes Heinsius collate more than a hundred manuscripts?
A) 1640–52
B) 1977–84
C) 1621–26
D) 1567–75
- 9. All complete texts or substantial fragments of the Metamorphoses derive from which archetype?
A) A Greek archetype
B) A Roman archetype
C) A Gallic archetype
D) A Dutch archetype
- 10. Who published a modern critical edition of the Metamorphoses in the Teubner series in 1977?
A) Samuel Garth
B) Nikolaes Heinsius
C) R. J. Tarrant
D) William S. Anderson
- 11. Who published a modern critical edition of the Metamorphoses with the Oxford Clarendon Press in 2004?
A) George Sandys
B) R. J. Tarrant
C) William S. Anderson
D) Arthur Golding
- 12. Whose works contained sections of the Metamorphoses in English before its full appearance?
A) Caxton and Golding
B) Shakespeare and Spenser
C) Dryden and Pope
D) Chaucer and Gower
- 13. Who produced the first English translation of the Metamorphoses on 22 April 1480?
A) Arthur Golding
B) George Sandys
C) William Caxton
D) Samuel Garth
- 14. In what format was William Caxton's 1480 translation of the Metamorphoses set?
A) Prose
B) Rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter
C) Blank verse
D) Heroic couplets
- 15. William Caxton's translation was a literal rendering of which French translation?
A) Ovide Moralisé
B) Clarendon translation
C) After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
D) Teubner series
- 16. Who published the highly influential 1567 translation read by Shakespeare and Spenser?
A) George Sandys
B) William Caxton
C) Arthur Golding
D) Samuel Garth
- 17. In what meter was Arthur Golding's 1567 translation written?
A) Prose
B) Heroic couplets
C) Iambic pentameter
D) Rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter
- 18. Who produced the significant translation of the Metamorphoses from 1621 to 1626?
A) Samuel Garth
B) Arthur Golding
C) William Caxton
D) George Sandys
- 19. What meter did George Sandys use, which later became dominant in English epic?
A) Rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter
B) Prose
C) Heroic couplets
D) Free verse
- 20. Who brought together a 1717 translation work 'by the most eminent hands'?
A) Arthur Golding
B) George Sandys
C) William Caxton
D) Samuel Garth
- 21. Which poet was among the 'most eminent hands' contributing to Samuel Garth's 1717 volume?
A) Arthur Golding
B) George Sandys
C) John Dryden
D) Nikolaes Heinsius
- 22. Until what time did Samuel Garth's volume continue to be printed without real rivals?
A) Into the 1900s
B) Until 1650
C) Until 1750
D) Into the 1800s
- 23. When did a greater number of translations of the Metamorphoses appear due to a literary translation revival?
A) In the early 18th century
B) At the beginning of printing in 1480
C) Around the later half of the 20th century
D) Throughout the 19th century
- 24. What was the title of the collection of translations and responses produced in 1994?
A) After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
B) The Garth Volume
C) Teubner Series
D) Ovide Moralisé
- 25. Which Book covers the Creation, the Ages of Mankind, and Apollo and Daphne?
A) Book IV
B) Book III
C) Book II
D) Book I
- 26. In which Book does the story of Phaëthon conclude and Jupiter and Europa appear?
A) Book II
B) Book IV
C) Book I
D) Book III
- 27. Which Book features Cadmus, Narcissus and Echo, and Pentheus and Bacchus?
A) Book III
B) Book V
C) Book IV
D) Book II
- 28. Pyramus and Thisbe, and Perseus and Andromeda are found in which Book?
A) Book V
B) Book III
C) Book VI
D) Book IV
- 29. Which Book contains Perseus' fight in the palace of Cepheus and the rape of Proserpina?
A) Book VII
B) Book VI
C) Book IV
D) Book V
- 30. Arachne, Niobe, and the story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela are in which Book?
A) Book VII
B) Book VIII
C) Book VI
D) Book V
- 31. Which Book includes Medea and Jason, and Cephalus and Procris?
A) Book IX
B) Book VII
C) Book VIII
D) Book VI
- 32. Daedalus and Icarus, and Philemon and Baucis are featured in which Book?
A) Book VIII
B) Book VII
C) Book IX
D) Book X
- 33. Which Book features the death and apotheosis of Hercules and the story of Byblis?
A) Book XI
B) Book VIII
C) Book IX
D) Book X
- 34. Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, and Myrrha are found in which Book?
A) Book IX
B) Book XI
C) Book XII
D) Book X
- 35. Which Book contains the death of Orpheus, Midas, and Ceyx and Alcyone?
A) Book XI
B) Book X
C) Book XII
D) Book XIII
- 36. Caenis and the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs are in which Book?
A) Book XIV
B) Book XIII
C) Book XI
D) Book XII
- 37. Which Book features Ajax, Ulysses, and the arms of Achilles, plus Acis and Galatea?
A) Book XV
B) Book XIV
C) Book XII
D) Book XIII
- 38. Pomona and Vertumnus and the apotheosis of Romulus are found in which Book?
A) Book XIV
B) Book XIII
C) Book XV
D) Book I
- 39. Which Book contains the doctrines of Pythagoras and the apotheosis of Julius Caesar?
A) Book XV
B) Book XIV
C) Book XIII
D) Book XII
- 40. Who turns into a laurel tree in Book I?
A) Io
B) Daphne
C) Callisto
D) Scylla
- 41. Who is transformed into a heifer in Book I?
A) Io
B) Proserpina
C) Daphne
D) Europa
- 42. Which mythological figure drives the chariot of the sun with disastrous results in Books I and II?
A) Phaëthon
B) Cadmus
C) Orpheus
D) Perseus
- 43. Who is turned into a bear and later placed among the stars in Book II?
A) Ocyrhoe
B) Callisto
C) Europa
D) Aglauros
- 44. Who sees Diana bathing and is transformed into a stag in Book III?
A) Actaeon
B) Cadmus
C) Narcissus
D) Pentheus
- 45. Who pines away staring at his own reflection in Book III?
A) Actaeon
B) Phaëthon
C) Cadmus
D) Narcissus
- 46. Who rescues Andromeda from a sea monster in Book IV?
A) Perseus
B) Jason
C) Hercules
D) Theseus
- 47. Who is abducted by Pluto in the story of the rape of Proserpina in Book V?
A) Proserpina
B) Arethusa
C) Minerva
D) Callisto
- 48. Which mortal weaver challenges Minerva to a contest in Book VI?
A) Procne
B) Niobe
C) Philomela
D) Arachne
- 49. Who builds wings of feathers and wax to escape imprisonment in Book VIII?
A) Daedalus
B) Perdix
C) Icarus
D) Minos
- 50. Who suffers from insatiable hunger inflicted by Ceres in Book VIII?
A) Erysichthon
B) Achelous
C) Nessus
D) Meleager
- 51. Who accidentally causes the death of Hercules with a poisoned tunic in Book IX?
A) Deianira
B) Iole
C) Byblis
D) Dryope
- 52. Which sculptor falls in love with his ivory statue in Book X?
A) Cyparissus
B) Pygmalion
C) Adonis
D) Orpheus
- 53. Who turns everything he touches into gold in Book XI?
A) Peleus
B) Daedalion
C) Midas
D) Aesacus
- 54. Which invulnerable warrior fights Achilles before being transformed into a bird in Book XII?
A) Ajax
B) Cycnus
C) Caenis
D) Nestor
- 55. Whose armor do Ajax and Ulysses dispute over in Book XIII?
A) Hector
B) Hercules
C) Achilles
D) Agamemnon
- 56. Who loves the sea-nymph Galatea and is crushed by a boulder hurled by Polyphemus in Book XIII?
A) Ulysses
B) Scylla
C) Acis
D) Glaucus
- 57. Which Roman god of gardens woos the wood-nymph Pomona in Book XIV?
A) Vertumnus
B) Romulus
C) Picust
D) Numa
- 58. Whose apotheosis concludes the narrative events of Rome's founding and early history in Book XIV?
A) Aeneas
B) Julius Caesar
C) Romulus
D) Numa
- 59. Which philosopher and mathematician expounds doctrines of transmigration and vegetarianism in Book XV?
A) Hippolytus
B) Asclepius
C) Numa
D) Pythagoras
- 60. Whose apotheosis is described near the very end of Book XV?
A) Numa
B) Hercules
C) Romulus
D) Julius Caesar
- 61. What is the original language of the Metamorphoses?
A) Ancient Greek
B) Latin
C) Italian
D) English
- 62. In what year was the Metamorphoses published?
A) 8 CE
B) 20th century
C) 1480
D) 5th century BCE
- 63. Approximately how many lines are in the Metamorphoses?
A) 21
B) 8
C) 11,995
D) 1480
- 64. How many myths are comprised within the Metamorphoses framework?
A) Only 4
B) Over 250
C) Exactly 15
D) 21
- 65. Which author was NOT mentioned as being inspired by the Metamorphoses?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) William Shakespeare
C) Dante Alighieri
D) Homer
- 66. In what year was the first English translation published?
A) 8 CE
B) 2000
C) 1995
D) 1480
- 67. What poetic tradition influenced Ovid's decision to make myth the primary subject?
A) Renaissance poetry
B) Epic drama
C) Alexandrian poetry
D) Hellenistic ornithology
- 68. What is the title of Boios' fragmentary poem of collected myths?
A) Heteroioumena
B) Ornithogonia
C) Julius Caesar
D) Metamorphoses
- 69. How many stories from the Heteroioumena are treated in the Metamorphoses?
A) 21
B) 250
C) 4
D) 15
- 70. How many books did Nicander's Heteroioumena probably consist of?
A) Four or five
B) One
C) Fifteen
D) Over two hundred
- 71. What was enriched by the use of intertextual references in the Metamorphoses?
A) The Renaissance paintings
B) The mythological landscape
C) The Latin grammar
D) The political regime
- 72. What meter is the Metamorphoses composed in?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Spadaic hexameter
D) Dactylic hexameter
- 73. Who opined that it would be misguided to pin any single genre label on the Metamorphoses?
A) Karl Galinsky
B) Julius Caesar
C) Statius
D) Brooks Otis
- 74. What is the title of the division spanning from Book I to Book II, line 875?
A) Rome and the Deified Ruler
B) The Pathos of Love
C) The Avenging Gods
D) The Divine Comedy
- 75. What is the title of the division spanning from Book III to Book VI, line 400?
A) The Avenging Gods
B) Rome and the Deified Ruler
C) The Pathos of Love
D) The Divine Comedy
- 76. Instead of a human hero, who is the closest thing this mock-epic has to a hero?
A) Statius
B) Julius Caesar
C) Amor
D) Apollo
- 77. Which god is shown coming in for particular ridicule because irrational love confounds him out of reason?
A) Apollo
B) Mars
C) Amor
D) Zeus
- 78. How many surviving Latin epics end with an epilogue?
A) Four
B) Two
C) One
D) Fifteen
- 79. Besides the Metamorphoses, what is the other surviving Latin epic that ends with an epilogue?
A) Statius' Thebaid
B) Virgil's Aeneid
C) Homer's Odyssey
D) Homer's Iliad
- 80. What recurring theme is central to nearly all of Ovid's work?
A) War
B) Politics
C) Love
D) Agriculture
- 81. When did the death of Julius Caesar occur in relation to Ovid's birth?
A) The exact same year
B) A century before
C) Only a year before
D) Ten years after
- 82. Which scholar identified four divisions in the narrative of the Metamorphoses?
A) Karl Galinsky
B) Julius Caesar
C) Brooks Otis
D) Statius
- 83. Who is the brother of Andromeda's father that attacks Perseus?
A) Phineus
B) Chaucer
C) Rhoetus
D) Ovid
- 84. Whose name is mentioned by scholar Stephen M. Wheeler regarding unifying themes of the Metamorphoses?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Stephen M. Wheeler
C) Ted Hughes
D) A. D. Melville
- 85. Which of the following is listed as a unifying theme by Stephen M. Wheeler?
A) Tragedy
B) Geography
C) Metamorphosis
D) Comedy
- 86. What is the Latin phrase found in the opening lines of the poem mentioned in the text?
A) L'Amorosa Fiammetta
B) In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora
C) Si poteris narrare, licet
D) Une Brutalité pastorale
- 87. What theme frequently accompanies transformation and is inflicted upon a victim?
A) Peace
B) Wealth
C) Joy
D) Violence
- 88. The transformation of a human into an inanimate object in the text is exemplified by whom?
A) Perdix
B) Daphne
C) Phineus
D) Nileus
E) Ariadne
- 89. What type of transformation does Ariadne's Crown represent?
A) Plants
B) Animals
C) Constellations
D) Inanimate objects
- 90. Perdix is transformed into what kind of entity?
A) Fungi
B) Constellations
C) Animals
D) Plants
- 91. Daphne, and Baucis and Philemon, are examples of transformations into what?
A) Plants
B) Animals
C) Constellations
D) Inanimate objects
- 92. Which of Geoffrey Chaucer's works adapts the story of Coronis and Phoebus Apollo from Book II?
A) The Book of the Duchess
B) The Wife of Bath's Tale
C) The Manciple's Tale
D) The Canterbury Tales
- 93. In which Shakespearean play do a band of amateur actors perform a play about Pyramus and Thisbe?
A) Titus Andronicus
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) A Midsummer Night's Dream
D) The Tempest
- 94. Which Italian writer included the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in his poem L'Amorosa Fiammetta?
A) Titian
B) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
C) Giovanni Boccaccio
D) Dante
- 95. What term became synonymous with mythological during the Renaissance and Baroque periods due to the influence of the Metamorphoses?
A) Homeric
B) Ovidian
C) Miltonic
D) Vergilian
- 96. Which artist created the collection of seven paintings known as 'poesie', inspired in part by the Metamorphoses?
A) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
B) Jean-Michel Bruyere
C) Titian
D) Pieter Brueghel
- 97. At which gallery were Titian's 'poesie' paintings reunited in an exhibition in 2020?
A) Royal Shakespeare Company
B) Lookingglass Theatre
C) The National Gallery
D) The Louvre
- 98. How was Ovid's influence on 19th-century writers described?
A) Paramount
B) Extensive
C) Considerable
D) Minimal
- 99. Who collected together and retold twenty-four passages from the Metamorphoses in Tales from Ovid published in 1997?
A) A. D. Melville
B) Ted Hughes
C) Mary Zimmerman
D) Jean-Michel Bruyere
- 100. Which theatre company premiered Mary Zimmerman's stage adaptation Metamorphoses in 1998?
A) The National Gallery
B) Royal Shakespeare Company
C) Lookingglass Theatre
D) LFKs
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