Latin for Americans, Level 1

Unit 7: Schools, Sites, and Sights in the Roman Empire

Glimpses of Roman Life: Education

1.
Roman children learned the alphabet by using letters cut out of ____.
A)clay
B)wood
C)ivory
D)stone
2.
Roman schools were often run by ____.
A)elderly citizens
B)Greek slaves
C)the students' parents
D)government officials and statesmen
3.
The children were taken to and from school by slaves called paedagōgī, meaning ____.
A)keepers of those learning
B)men who know the way
C)helpers of the students
D)those who lead children
4.
Arithmetic, reading, and ____ were the basis of the elementary school curriculum.
A)science
B)public speaking
C)writing
D)citizenship
5.
In the third century B.C., schoolteacher Livius Andronicus translated for his students the famous Greek work, ____.
A)the Odyssey,
B)Antigone
C)the Iliad
D)Theogony
6.
The students wrote on papyrus or on ____.
A)the ground
B)small chalk boards
C)wax tablets
D)stretched leather
7.
Papyrus was an expensive kind of paper made from thin strips of reed that grew ____.
A)on the banks of the Tiber River
B)in Southern Asia
C)in Egypt
D)along the coastline
8.
Originally, classroom texts were ____.
A)extremely rare and very heavy
B)hardcover books
C)not in existence
D)made of rolled papyrus
9.
Arithmetic was more complicated for the Romans because ____.
A)primitive calculators were inaccurate
B)Roman numerals were hard to read
C)they did not have the Arabic number zero
D)they did not have good teachers
10.
____ were virtually impossible to do in ancient Roman times.
A)Estimating and theorizing
B)Counting, adding, and subtracting
C)Calculating length and distance
D)Multiplying and dividing
11.
The ____ aided the Romans with their arithmetic.
A)books written by masters in mathematics
B)multiplication tablets
C)abacus
D)system of division that used rocks and stones
12.
To prepare boys for a profession in ____, they were given advanced education at the schola grammaticī.
A)scientific research
B)the military
C)law and public life
D)teaching school
13.
Most educated Romans learned to speak and write ____.
A)Hebrew
B)Greek
C)French
D)Arabic
14.
To be physically fit, boys often participated in running, wrestling, and ____ after class.
A)fencing
B)dodgeball
C)tennis
D)boxing
15.
Practical Romans felt that training in literature and ____ was the best educational system.
A)psychology
B)astronomy
C)linguistics
D)philosophy
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