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Suburani 12: incendium in Subura

Total questions: 6

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1-3.

in urbe

incendium per viās tōtīus urbis nunc ruēbat. flammae tabernās popīnās
īnsulās violenter cōnsūmēbant. Subūrānī per viās fūmōsās ruēbant.
mātrōnae līberīs haerēbant. dominī servōs vocābant. omnēs effugere
temptābant.

1.

What rushes through the streets of the city?

a)

incendium

b)

flammae

c)

matronae

d)

domini

2.

What word best descirbes the city streets?

a)

totae

b)

fumosas

c)

omnes

d)

violenter

3.

What is everyone trying to do?

a)

put out the fire

b)

get a drink in the bar

c)

flee the fire

d)

find their children

4.


mātrōnae līberīs haerēbant. dominī servōs vocābant.

5-11.

Catia ad popīnam festīnābat. Quārtillam prō popīnā cōnspexit.

‘ubi est īnfāns?’ ancilla perterrita rogāvit.

‘nōnne tū eum cūrās?’ exclāmāvit Catia.

Currāx perterritus fēminās spectāvit. ‘īnfāns in īnsulā dormiēbat …’,
puer susurrāvit.

Catia ferōciter exclāmāvit, et ad iānuam īnsulae cucurrit.

‘tēcum veniō, īnsula est perīculōsa!’ ancilla exclāmāvit. ‘hīc manē, mī fīlī.'

5.

Who sees Quartilla?

a)

Catia

b)

Rufina

c)

Currax

d)

infans

6.

Who is described as terrified?

a)

Catia

b)

Quartilla

c)

infans

d)

Celer

7.

‘nōnne tū eum cūrās?’

a)

weren't you taking care of him?

b)

don't you have him?

c)

isn't he with you?

d)

aren't you taking care of him?

8.

Ubi est infans?

a)

in insula

b)

in via

c)

cum Catia

d)

cum Currax

9.

tēcum veniō

a)

are you coming with me

b)

I am going with you

c)

you come with me

d)

I am staying with you

10.

Who helps Catia?

a)

Currax

b)

Quartilla

c)

Celer

d)

Gisco

11.

Who says 'hic mane, mi fili.'?

a)

Catia

b)

Currax

c)

Quartilla

d)

Gisco

12-17.

mātrōna et ancilla īnsulam intrāvērunt et per fūmum ascendēbant.
īnsula obscūra erat et fēminae mūrōs cellārum vix vidēre poterant.
lentē prōcēdēbant. in tabulātō secundō prōcēdere nōn potuērunt, quod
trabs conlāpsa erat. flammae nunc ubīque erant. Catia dēspērābat,
sed Quārtilla trabem cum magnā difficultāte sustulit. ‘festīnā!’ Quārtilla
exclāmāvit. Catia breviter dubitāvit, sed clāmōrem īnfantis
audīvit, et ‘nōlī timēre, Quārtilla!’ dīxit, ‘reveniō!’ Catia sub trabem rēpsit,
et in tabulātum tertium festīnāvit. subitō ingēns fragor resonāvit.

12.

Who enters the apartment building?

a)

Catia

b)

Quartilla

c)

Currax

d)

Catia and Quartilla

13.

What can the women not see well?

a)

walls

b)

eachother

c)

the baby

d)

rats

14.

What blocks the path?

a)

flammes

b)

smoke

c)

a beam

d)

a door

15.

Who gives up?

a)

Catia

b)

Quartilla

c)

Gisco

d)

Currax

16.

Why does Catia keep going?

a)

She wants to be brave like Quartilla

b)

The way down is bocked.

c)

She knows the baby is still alive.

d)

She is chased by rats.

17.

Which sentence gives an ominous feeling to the passage?

a)

Catia breviter dubitavit

b)

festina! Quartilla exclamavit

c)

ingens fragor resonavit

d)

in tabluatum teritum festinavit.

18-21.

in viā Currāx īnsulam ānxiē spectābat. subitō Giscō advēnit et ‘dīc mihi,
ubi est uxor? ubi est fīlius?’ rogāvit.

‘in īnsulā sunt, domine. īnfāns …’, servus dīcere coepit. tum Currāx et
Giscō ingentem fragōrem audīvērunt. Giscō puerum rapuit et celeriter
cucurrit. tōta īnsula in viam cecidit.

18.

Who is in the road?

a)

Currax

b)

Faustus

c)

Rufina

d)

Quartilla

19.

What do the people in the street hear?

a)

a loud crash

b)

a baby crying

c)

Catia shouting

d)

a fire engine arriving

20.

What action does Gisco take?

a)

he grabs the baby and runs

b)

he grabs Currax and runs

c)

he runs into the building and grabs the baby

d)

he stands still and watches as the buring building crashed down on him.

21.

Who arrives?

a)

Currax

b)

Quartilla

c)

Gisco

d)

Rufina

22.

Reorder the following

a)

Catia arrives at the apartment

b)

Quartilla tells her son to wait

c)

Quartilla lifts a beam

d)

Catia hears the baby

e)

Gisco grabs Currax

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)