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WorksheetsStage 4 Culture: The Forum
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What were the major purposes of the forum in Pompeii? Check all that apply.
Commercial business
Administrative business
Religion
Gardening
What surrounded the forum on three sides?
Temples
The River Tiber
A colonnade
A wall
What did the colonnade provide people?
A corridor for more traders to do business.
Private Rooms
A corridor for people to walk and do business out of the heat of the sun or rain.
A viewing gallery for all the statues.
Who was Eumachia?
A goddess of Pompeii
A wealthy patroness of the clothworkers & priestess
The wife of Caecilius
The empress
How did people enter the forum? (Check TWO correct answers.)
On horseback
On foot
With wagons
through the Bronze gates
What was the purpose of the large stone blocks at the entrance ways?
To take tickets for entry to the forum
To allow wagons into the forum
A nice surface for graffitti
To block wheeled traffic
What were the lārēs?
a type of dessert
guardian spirits of Pompeii
another name for the emperors
guardian spirits of Apollo
The Pompeiians believed that the goddess (a) took a special interest in their town.
Apollo was the god of (a)
The basilica was (a)
Match the following roles with their descriptions.
law court
Basilica
official responsible for law & order
Aedile
banker's stall, like Caecilius'
Argentaria
an Egyptian goddess who had a temple dedicated to her in Pompeii
Isis
Match the following deities with their descriptions.
king of the gods
Jupiter
goddess of love and beauty
Venus
god of the the sun and music
Apollo
Egyptian goddess
Isis
Choose 2 ways information was delivered to the people:
notice boards
graffiti
people constantly yelling
door to door delivery
Which of these was NOT a religious shrine near the forum?
Temple of Jupiter
Temple of the Emperors
Temple of Venus
Temple of Grumio and Clemens
Which temple stood in a prominent place at the north end of the forum, and whose steps were probably used as place for men to make political speeches?
Temple of Jupiter
Temple of the Emperors
Temple of Venus
Temple of Grumio and Clemens
