Latin for Americans, Level 2

Unit 2: Two Roman Students in Athens

Self-Check Quiz

1.
The Greek and Roman civilizations were ____.
A)never intertwined
B)identical
C)different in many respects
D)separate remnants of the Greco-Roman tribal civilization
2.
The ethnic precursors of the Greeks and Romans began migrating from western Asia around ____.
A)200,000 B.C.
B)20,000 B.C.
C)2,000 B.C.
D)200 B.C.
3.
The group of people who became the Romans were originally ____.
A)sailors
B)farmers
C)miners
D)tomb builders
4.
Roman social values were ____.
A)power, status, and prestige
B)intellect, individualism, and prestige
C)intellect, power, and individualism
D)power, individualism, and privacy
5.
Greek city-states were ____.
A)fiercely independent
B)organized within a national government
C)models of totalitarianism
D)never rivals
6.
The people who first transmitted the alphabet to the Romans were the ____.
A)Eritreans
B)Ethiopians
C)Estonians
D)Etruscans
7.
Greece came under Roman rule in the ____.
A)fourth century B.C.
B)third century B.C.
C)second century B.C.
D)first century B.C.
8.
The building form that is distinctly Roman is the ____.
A)square temple with a colonnade
B)Pompeiian minaret
C)round temple with a dome
D)pyramidal tower
9.
Romans generally preferred the ____ building style.
A)Doric
B)Corinthian
C)Olympian
D)Ionic
10.
Romans often placed their buildings and temples ____.
A)on a high base
B)facing south-southeast
C)within two sets of walls
D)behind fortresses
11.
The Greeks excelled in ____.
A)geometry
B)surveying
C)engineering
D)portraiture
12.
Latin literature and tradition ____.
A)were lost for a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire
B)never influenced the civilization of the Western world
C)were never influenced by Greek culture
D)preserved Greek thought and art in western Europe
13.
The civilization of western Europe and the United States _____.
A)took nothing from the Greco-Roman tradition
B)borrowed from the Roman tradition but not the Greek
C)developed from the Greco-Roman tradition
D)only borrowed from original Greek ideas
14.
Interest in the Greek language was revived during ____.
A)World War II
B)the Renaissance
C)the Persian Wars
D)the Dark Ages
15.
According to Vergil, in order to rule nations, a Roman should "____."
A)impose civilization on peace
B)spare the conquered
C)subdue the proud
D)all of the above
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