6th Grade SGO Review

What types of people were gladiators

• prisoners of war

• volunteers

• criminals

• all of the answers

Why did the Roman emperors take over the gladiatorial games?

• to keep the poor and unemployed from revolting

• to help fight the wars Rome needed to expand

• for horse racing

• none of the answers

True or false: The Gladiator games did not last long in Rome

• True

• False

The Roman Seneca did not enjoy the games because:

• he wasn't allowed to participate

• he thought they were boring

• he did not like watching people die

• all of the answers

The world idle in the sentence: There is nothing so ruinous to good character as to idle away one's time at some spectacle means?

• something beautiful

• a celebrity

• a waste of time

• none of the answers

Rome's culture was based on:

• brutality

• cruelty

• bloodshed

• all of the answers

When the gladiator games first started, they began because:

• they had too many criminals

• the emperor was bored

• they wanted to honor the dead

• none of the answers