LITERATURE

Answer the following questions:

During the Golden Age of Roman Literature, writers and scholars were supported by rich individuals like whom?

• →Maecenas

• → Cicero

• → Julius Caesar

• → Virgil

Answer the following question:

What was Virgil’s occupation?

• →Poet

• →Bard

• →Statesman

• →Farmer

Complete the following sentence:

In Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas’s son is called what?

• →Lulus

• →Remus

• →Rubio

• →Fabian

Answer the following question:

What was Horace’s full name and what was his profession?

• →Quintus Horatius Flaccus; Poet

• →Quintus Horatius Dimitrius; Playwright

• →Quintus Mauritius Gaius; Shipwright

• →Quintus Hermitus Sagius; Oracle

Answer the following question:

What were short poems called?

• →Odes

• →Haikus

• →Biblios

• →Torah

Answer the following question:

Where was Publius Ovidius Naso exiled?

• →A town on the Black Sea far from Rome

• →A small town in Greece

• →A small fishing village off the coast of North Africa

• →An island off the coast of France

Answer the following question:

Apart from conventional writing, what are some other very useful clues in building up a picture of what life in Rome was like at this time?

• →Inscriptions

• →Online Records

• →Digital Photographs

• →None of the above

Answer the following question:

The profession of using various sources of information to build up a picture about life in past civilisations is called?

• →Historian

• →Politician

• →Geologist

• →Archaeologist

Complete the following sentence:

The age of _______ is now considered the Golden Age of Roman literature.

• →Augustus

• →Caesar

• →Writers

• →Romulus

Complete the following sentence:

Horace wrote short poems about his own life, his loves and private ________.

• →Feelings

• →Affairs

• →Desires

• →Fears