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1.5 Latin and Literature

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The language spoken in Rome was...

a)

Greek

b)

Roman

c)

Latin

d)

Pig Latin

2.

The Romans brought writing to....

a)

California

b)

Egypt

c)

Language Arts classes

d)

Northern Europe

3.

over time, new languages called ___________________, developed from Latin.

a)

Mediterranean Languages

b)

Romance Languages

c)

talking

d)

Linguistics

4.

Romance Languages include....

a)

Chinese, German and Slavic.

b)

English, Russian, Tagalog, and Hindi

c)

French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese

d)

poems, sonnets, love letters, and valentines

5.

Roman writers and thinkers used the Latin language to create...

a)

nursery rhymes.

b)

Trojan horses.

c)

epic mathematical equations.

d)

great works of literature.

6.

Oratory, or _________________, was especially prized by Romans.

a)

public speaking

b)

orange tree growing

c)

digging for gold ore

d)

orangutan monkey chatter

7.

The most celebrated Roman epic poem was......

a)

Hickory Dickory Dock.

b)

Homer's Illiad.

c)

Jabberwocky

d)

Virgil's Aeneid.

8.

Philosophy is the study of....

a)

reality

b)

knowledge

c)

beliefs

d)

all of the above

9.

The Greek Stoic philosophy stressed a practical approach....

a)

babies were delivered by storks.

b)

people performed their civic duty and accepted their circumstances-good or bad.

c)

all citizens copied Caesar's lifestyle and speech patterns.

d)

you eat your beans with every meal.

10.

_________________________ became the keeper of Roman literature.

a)

Augustus Caesar

b)

Julius Caesar

c)

The Roman Catholic Church

d)

The secret catacombs

11.

Roman literature was used to educate young men in......

a)

morality

b)

learning their ABCs

c)

government

d)

law

12.

Latin prefixes and suffixes include....

a)

sub

b)

pre

c)

able

d)

ity