Download 12 - Latin Literature

Test # 12
Roman Literature Area C February, 2012
Livius Andronicus to Boethius
1. Livius Andronicus, according to Livy is credited with writing the first Latin _______ with a plot.
a) novel; b) poem; c) play; d) book of essays
2. Livius Andronicus began his literary career at the request of an aedile. He was asked to
compose materials for the ______.
a) Saturnalia; b) Ludi Romani; c) Lupercalia; d) Quirinalia
3. Livius Andronicus translated into Latin many of the ________ literary works.
a) Greek; b) Etruscan; c) Fescennine; d) Phoenician
4. The first writer to give Latin literature a nationalist character was ________.
a) Terence; b) Ennius; c) Andronicus; d) Gnaeus Naevius
5. A distinction was made in the type of Roman comedy. There were those performed in Greek
dress and were called ________.
a) togatae; b) palliatae; c) tunicae; d) chitonae
6. There were comedies performed in Latin dress which were called ________.
a) togatae; b) palliatae; c) tunicae; d) chitonae
7. Gnaeus Naevius was of _______ origin.
a) Roman; b) Carthaginian; c) Greek; d) northern Italian
8. Gnaeus Naevius wrote a notional epic in Latin verse which mentioned the connection between
Rome and Troy. The title was ________’
a) Equus Troianus; b) Oriolus; c) Hector Profiscens; d) Bellum Punicum
9. Quintus Ennius, claimed by many historians to be the true father of Latin literature, was born in
_______.
a) Rome; b) Calabria; c) Umbria; d) Tuscany
10. Ennius’ major work of 18 books is titled________.
a) Satires; b) Bellum Punicum; c) Annals; d) Sacred Histories
11. Ennius’ work in writing tragedies was continued by his nephew ______.
a) Seneca; b) Marcus Pacuvius; c) Terence; d) Lucretius
12. A younger, rival writer of tragedies to the answer of number 11 was_________.
a) Lucius Accius; b) Seneca; c) Julius Caesar Strabo; d) Gaius Lucilius
13. Titus Maccius Plautus is known for his writing of Latin _________.
a) tragedy; b) comedy; c) lyric poetry; d) didactic essays
14. Plautus’ plays are almost formulaic. Which ingredient is not in the formula?
a) a young gentleman; b) a charming girl about to be sold; c) a parasite who defrauds
the gentleman’s father; d) an irate mother of the young girl
15. Which is not a play by Plautus?
a) Aulularia; b) Iphigenia; c) Menaechmi; d) Miles Gloriosus
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16. Caecilius Statius, a freedman writer who wrote after Plautus but before Terence, and was
considered equal to these writers was born in _______
a) Rome; b) Carthage; c) Spain; d) Milan
17. According to tradition Terence was born in _________.
a) Rome; b) Carthage; c) Spain; d) Milan
18. Terence was accepted into an enlightened group of men known as the_________.
a) Scipionic Circle; b) Circle of Maecenas; c)Epicureans; d) Stoics
19. Of all of Terence’s plays, ______ survive.
a) none; b) four; c) all; d) ten
20. Terence’s plays are original Latin plays and have no Greek affiliation to anything Greek.
a) a= true; b) b= false
21. Gaius Lucilius was known for his writing of ________.
a) comedies; b) verses; c) tragedies; d) satires
22. Marcus Porcius Cato , the Censor, wrote a useful treatise, the oldest extant prose work in Latin
known as__________.
a) de agricultura/ de re rustica; b) ad filium; c) delenda est Carthago; d) carmen de
moribus
23. Cato , when an old man, wrote a seven volume history of Rome, known as the________.
a) ab urbe condita; b) Libri magistratuum; c) Milesian Tales; d) Origines
24. L. Cassius Hemina, C. Fannius, Sempronius Asello, wrote ________ about Rome.
a) legends; b) essays; c) histories; d) plays
25. Many Romans wrote their autobiographies. Which name listed is not the name of a person who
wrote his autobiography?
a) Aemelius Scaurus; b) Plautus; c) Rutilius Rufus; d) Sulla
26. The literary form most characteristic of the Romans is_______.
a) play writing; b) autobiographies; c) letter writing; d) persuasive speech(oratory) and
history
27. Which Roman did Cicero not mention as a worthy orator?
a) Publius Cornelius Scipio; b) Gaius(or Tiberius) Gracchus; c) Quintilian; d) Laelius
28. Lucretius’ poetry is Epicurean in theme. His most famous work is _________.
a) de rerum natura; b) Tusculan disputations; c) actiones; d) de iuris disciplina
29. The “love” of the poet Catullus was named _______ in his poems.
a) Corinna; b) Delia; c) Lesbia; d) Cynthia
30. The meters in Catulllus’ poems was/were_________.
a) never dactylic hexameter; b) usually Alexandrian meters; c) meters of the
Fescennine plays; d) blank verse
31. A close friend of Catullus who is mentioned in one of his poems and was also a poet was ____.
a) Volacius Sedigitus; b) Valerio Cato; c) Aulus Gellius; d) C. Licinius Macer
32. Catullus’ patron to whom he dedicates a volume of poetry was ________.
a) Cornelius Nepos; b) Cornelius Scipio; c) Maecenas; d) Julius Caesar
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33. Catullus’ longest poem is _________.
a) Attis; b) The Sapphic ode; c) The Lock of Berenice; d) The Marriage of Peleus and
Thetis
34. Julius Caesar wrote all through his lifetime. He wrote literary criticism, treatise on astronomy,
treatise on grammar, and on political theory. August suppressed all except commentaries about
the Gallic and Civil Wars. The Gallic War is in _______ books.
a) one; b) three; c) five; d) seven
35. Gaius Sallustius Crispus is remembered for his writing of _______.
a) poetry; b) plays; c) history; d) orations
36. Sallust and Caesar were both contemporaries and friends.
a) a= true; b) b= false
37. Cornelius Nepos, mentioned by Catullus, is the first writer to write a universal ________ three
volumes.
a) poem; b) play; c) history; d) oration
38. The man who was the greatest scholar and most productive writer of Rome (according to many
historians) and was in charge of the public library by Julius Caesar was _______.
a) M. Terentius Varro; b) Cornelius Nepos; c) G. Sallustius Crispus; d) Velleius
Paterculus
39. A man to whom Cicero wrote many letters, was a friend of Nepos, and who was a writer in his
own right is_______.
a) Sallust; b) Atticus; c) Caecilius Rufus; d) Caecilius Metellus
40. Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in _______.
a) Rome; b) Milan; c) Capua; d) Arpinum
41. Cicero is best known for his ________.
a) poetry; b) oratory; c) drama; d) essays
42. Cicero’s great rival was ______.
a) Julius Caesar; b) Cornelius Nepos; c) Q. Hortensius Hortalus; d) Pompey
43. The only Latin literature which Vergil wrote was the Aeneid.
a) a= true; b) b= false
44. Which type of poetry did Quintus Horatius Flaccus not write?
a) odes; b) epodes; c) ecologues; d) satires
45. Horace is known as a _____ poet.
a) lyric; b) epic; c) satiric; d) love
46. Tibullus wrote poems to a woman named _____.
a) Corinna; b) Lucretia; c) Lesbia; d) Delia
47. Publius Ovidius Naso is famous for his telling of the ancient myths in his _______.
a) Ars Amatoria; b) Remedium Amoris; c) Epistles from the Pontus; d) Metamorphoses
48. Livy has written the principal textbook of Roman history which is _______.
a) Annals; b) Ab Urbe Condita Libri; c) Res Gestae; d) Chronica
49. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, one of the Silver style of Latin writers, wrote ______ which were
patterned after the Greek models.
a) lyric poetry; b) orations; c) tragic drama; d) comic drama
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50. Boethius and Cassiodorous may be credited with preserving a summary of ancient knowledge at
a time in the Middle Ages when there was beginning an era of intellectual darkness.
a) a= true; b) b= false
Tie breakers
96. Livius Andronicus lived circa ______.
a) 674-524 BC; b) 428-348 BC; c) 284-204 BC; d) 177-31 BC
97. Lucius Accius lived long enough to become a friend to ______ and discuss literary questions with
him.
a) Cicero; b) Caesar; c) Vergil; d) Livy
98. Terence’s plays were said to have been written with help from his group of friends. Terence
never responded to this accusation.
a) a = true; b) b= false
99. Which title did Vergil not write?
a) Ecologues; b) Georgics; c) Aeneid; d) Works and Days
100. Pliny the Younger gives the reader insights into his uncle’s, Pliny the Elder, life. One of the Elder’s
books which has survived is _____.
a) The Students; b) Natural History; c) Linguistic Queries; d) A Continuation
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Reference text: A History of Latin
Literature by Moses Hades
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