Latin for Americans, Level 2

Unit 10: Latin Literature

Self-Check Quiz

1.
Ennius was _____.
A)never alliterative
B)the author of Miles Gloriosus (The Boastful Soldier)
C)the father of Latin poetry
D)the author of the Annals, an epic about Greek history
2.
Two great masters of Roman dramatic comedy were _____.
A)Plautus and Terence
B)Pyrgopolinices and Artotrogus
C)Phaedrus and Tacitus
D)Petronius and Trimalchio
3.
The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius attempts to explain the universe in _____ terms.
A)romantic
B)spiritual
C)Stoic
D)scientific
4.
Cornelius Nepos wrote _____.
A)poetry
B)biographies
C)novels
D)manuals
5.
Rome's most inspired lyric poet was _____.
A)Cornelius Nepos
B)Catullus
C)Cicero
D)Petronius
6.
Cicero was a great _____.
A)public speaker and essayist
B)poet and dramatist
C)essayist and dramatist
D)public speaker and poet
7.
The author of Dē Officiīs was _____.
A)Horace
B)Livy
C)Cicero
D)Martial
8.
The politician and officer whose writings were critical of the decadence of the old Roman aristocracy was _____.
A)Seneca
B)Sallust
C)Sulpicio
D)Livy
9.
Tibullus and Propertius were ____.
A)elegists
B)fabulists
C)epigrammatists
D)characters in the Satiricon
10.
A fable usually has a _____ at the end.
A)coda
B)verse
C)joke
D)moral
11.
Valerius Maximus was the first-century _____.
A)emperor who forced Seneca to commit suicide
B)emperor who appointed Quintilian state professor of rhetoric
C)anthologist of assorted material for public speakers
D)educator and author of twelve lifelong learning books for public speakers
12.
The only known Roman female poet is _____.
A)Setentia
B)Sororcula
C)Sulpicia
D)Sīlēna
13.
Quintilian believed that a man could not be a good orator if he were not a(n) _____ man.
A)educated
B)good
C)golden-voiced
D)passionate
14.
The first-century A.D. Roman author whose books preached Stoic philosophy was _____.
A)Seneca
B)Scipio
C)Suetonius
D)Sallust
15.
The zany and ludicrous Latin story of rogues who live by their wits and get in trouble with the authorities is the _____.
A)Miles Gloriosus
B)Noctes Atticae
C)Ordō Virtūtum
D)Satiricon
16.
An epigram is generally _____.
A)a short, clever poem
B)a lament for the dead
C)a tall tale
D)sixteen stanzas in a facetiae
17.
The style of Tacitus was _____.
A)florid and empassioned
B)academic and toneless
C)cynical and austere
D)witty and outrageous
18.
Juvenal's themes were the _____ of his times.
A)political issues
B)vices
C)economic improvements
D)ecological disasters
19.
Suetonius wrote about the first twelve Roman _____.
A)amphitheaters
B)emperors
C)Tables of the Law
D)senators
20.
Androclus was a(n) _____.
A)anecdotalist
B)fabulist
C)emperor
D)slave
21.
Anecdotal writing is like making a(n) _____.
A)mathematical proof
B)outline
C)scrapbook
D)budget
22.
The medieval poet Hildegard von Bingen was also a(n) _____.
A)scholar and herbalist
B)actress
C)A and B
D)none of the above
23.
During the Middle Ages, _____ helped to preserve Latin and Greek literature.
A)lending libraries
B)monasteries
C)museums
D)printer's devils
24.
The Gesta Rōmānōrum was _____.
A)a source of material for Shakespeare
B)a collection of ancient wills and bequests
C)an agricultural tract
D)written by Cicero
25.
The fourteenth-century Italian poet, scholar, and humanist who helped to initiate the Renaissance was _____.
A)Pernosco
B)Poggio
C)Petrarch
D)Pharus
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