Pliny's Eruption of Vesuvius pt 1 Review

The author in which Pliny is writing the letters to

• Tacitus

• Vergil

• Pliny the Elder

• Martial

morti eius si celebretur

• if his death is being celebrated

• if the death of him is celebrated

• his death is celebrated

• he celebrates his own death

celebretur

• he was being celebrated

• they were celebrated

• he is being celebrated

• they will be celebrated

What will Pliny the Elder receive by the writing of the letters

• vita breva

• gloria perpetua

• immortalis

• immortalem gloriam

Erat Miseni ______________ imperio praesens regebat

• comites

• classis

• arma

• hostis

The three things Pliny the Elder was doing at the time of the Eruption

• napping, talking to his wife, taking a bath

• reading, sunbathing, napping

• sunbathing, having a meal, taking a bath

• writing, reading, sunbathing

What does Pliny compare the shape of the eruption to?

• A snake

• A pine tree

• A god

• A cloud

Nam longissimo velut trunco elata

• for having been raised like a tall tree trunk

• having been stretched like a river

• for it was raised like a tall tree

• for it was elevated like a mountain

interdum arborum
sordida et maculosa prout, terram cineremue sustulerat

(interdum: sometimes; sustulerat: lift up; sordida: dirty)

What compels Pliny the Elder to ready the fleet?

• He has family members waiting on the beach

• A letter from his friend, Rectina

• Rectina shows up at his house

• The eruption grows more intense