WorksheetsThe Ancient Roman World, Chapter 1
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
According to Virgil, where does the history of the Roman people begin?
Byzantium
Athens
Troy
Thebes
Alexandria
Who was the Trojan prince and son of a goddess that led Trojan survivors to Italy?
Achilles
Odysseus
Paris
Aeneas
Priam
Of which goddess was Aeneas the son?
Minerva (Athena)
Juno (Hera)
Ceres (Demeter)
Vesta (Hestia)
Venus (Aphrodite)
Near which river did the Trojan refugees land in Italy?
Euphrates
Tiber
Rubicon
Arno
Nile
Which woman decided it was time for the Trojan refugees to settle down and stop traveling?
Helen
Clytemnestra
Calypso
Roma
Rhea Silvia
How did the Trojan women stop the Trojan men from traveling anywhere else after they arrived in Italy?
They burned the ships.
They planted crops.
They raised an army.
They prayed to the gods.
They built a walled city.
Which historian tells the story of Rome beginning with Roma, the Trojan noblewoman?
Catullus
Cicero
Virgil
Livy
Dionysius
Who were the two sons of the king in Livy's version of the story?
Amulius and Numitor
Romulus and Remus
Achilles and Patroclus
Jonathan and David
Ptolemy and Alexander
Which brother took over the throne and forced the other brother out?
Remus forced Romulus out.
Hector forced Paris out.
Amulius forced Numitor out.
Telemachus forced Eurymachus out.
Jonathan forced Saul out.
Who might have had children that would have threatened Amulius?
Roma
Helen
Andromache
Rhea Silvia
Hecuba
What did Amulius make Rhea Silvia to keep her from having any children?
A Franciscan Nun
A Vestal Virgin
A Court Stenographer
A Queen Consort
A Priestess of Hecate
Which goddess did the Vestal Virgins serve?
Fortuna (Tyche)
Luna (Selene)
Discordia (Eris)
Diana (Artemis)
Vesta (Hestia)
To whom did Rhea Silvia give birth?
Ptolemy and Cleopatra
Jacob and Esau
Romulus and Remus
Somnus and Mors
Hercules and Iphicles
How were the babies disposed of?
Fed to a she-wolf.
In a basket in the river.
Sold into slavery.
Abandoned on a mountain.
Imprisoned in a dungeon.
Who rescued the babies?
A she-wolf
A Sabine princess
A Trojan noblewoman
A Vestal Virgin
Helen of Troy
Who took the babies home and raised them?
Numitor
Dionysius
Aeneas
A blacksmith
A royal shepherd
Which brother was killed?
Remus
Romulus
Abraham
Ramesses
Amulius
Who killed Remus?
Romulus
Numitor
Amulius
Roma
Rhea Silvia
On our calendar, what is the date for the founding of the city of Rome?
509 BC
27 BC
753 BC
330 AD
476 AD
Who was said to be the father of Romulus and Remus?
Jupiter (Zeus)
Poseidon (Neptune)
Pluto (Hades)
Mars (Ares)
Mercury (Hermes)
Which historian tells the story of Rome beginning with Romulus and Remus?
Livy
Virgil
Dionysius
Josephus
Philo
What people lived on the lands around the Palatine Hill?
The Sabines
The Volscii
The Etruscans
The Trojans
The Celts
What did the Sabines provide for the men of Rome?
weapons
wives
codes of law
food supplies
building materials
How did the Sabine men react to the marriages of their daughters?
They were pleased and proud.
They were relieved.
They were enraged.
They were depressed.
They didn't care either way.
Who stopped the fighting between the Roman men and the Sabine men?
the daughers of the Sabines
the mothers of Romans
the Spartan soldiers
Tiresias the Prophet
Laocoön the Prophet
What kind of parent was a hero or leader often thought to have had?
handicapped
immortal
foreign
blind
orphaned
Why are there two such different stories about the founding of Rome?
One story is the Trojan version and the other story is the Roman version.
Minerva (Athena) told the Romans to change their historical background.
Mistakes were made when the stories were copied in the Middle Ages.
The stories are from a time before written history.
Julius Caesar didn't like the idea of Rome having been named after a woman.
What offers historical evidence that the Roman people and Sabine people really did merge into a single culture?
Architectural designs in ancient temples
Documents preserved in the Vatican archives
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Cemeteries and burial customs
Ruins found in the Roman sewers
