Latin and Greek Language Quiz

Which Roman author wrote about natural history?

• Marcus

• Pliny the Elder

• Seneca

• Cicero

Which Roman playwright was a former slave?

• Cicero

• Plautus

• Terence

• Seneca

What is the Latin phrase that means "from the beginning"?

• Ad nauseam

• Per se

• Ad infinitum

• Ad hoc

What is the Latin phrase that means "across" or "through"?

• Transliter

• Transcription

• Translatic

• Anglicization

What is the term for the period of "rebirth" that followed the Middle Ages?

• Medieval

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Scholasticism

Which Latin phrase means "seize the day"?

• Carpe Diem

• Veni Vidi Vici

• Cogito Ergo Sum

• E Pluribus Unum

Which Roman poet wrote "Metamorphoses"?

• Ovid

• Horace

• Virgil

• Cicero

Which group of people used a language that is the ancestor of modern Greek?

• Phoenicians

• Greeks

• Romans

• Etruscans

Which language is not a Romance language?

• French

• Spanish

• Latin

• Greek

Which Roman general was assassinated on the Ides of March?

• Julius Caesar

• Nero

• Augustus

• Caracalla