Gladiators - true or false?

There were many different types of gladiators.

• True

• False

Gladiators were often slaves, but not always.

• True

• False

Every gladiatorial fight ended in death.

• True

• False

Captured soldiers were forced to fight as gladiators.

• True

• False

Gladiators sometimes fought against wild animals in the arena.

• True

• False

We don’t know what the names of famous gladiators were.

• True

• False

Pompeii (where Caecilius lived) did not have its own amphitheatre.

• True

• False

The amphitheatre called ‘the Colosseum’ is in Rome.

• True

• False

Gladiators got a wooden spoon when they retired.

• True

• False

Gladiators got a wooden sword when they retired.

• True

• False