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Roman Literature

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the author of the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid?

a)

Vergil

b)

Tacitus

c)

Maecenas

d)

Pliny the Younger

2.

Which Roman figure was a lawyer and magistrate under Emperor Trajan?

a)

Vergil

b)

Tacitus

c)

Pliny the Younger

d)

Pliny the Elder

3.

Who wrote the Natural History?

a)

Tacitus

b)

Maecenas

c)

Pliny the Elder

d)

Vergil

4.

Which work is considered a model for the modern encyclopedia?

a)

Histories

b)

Aeneid

c)

Annals

d)

Natural History

5.

Who was the maternal uncle of Pliny the Younger?

a)

Tacitus

b)

Maecenas

c)

Pliny the Elder

d)

Vergil

6.

Which Roman figure died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?

a)

Vergil

b)

Tacitus

c)

Pliny the Elder

d)

Pliny the Younger

7.

Who was the patron of Vergil?

a)

Pliny the Elder

b)

Tacitus

c)

Pliny the Younger

d)

Maecenas

8.

Which work by Vergil is a pastoral poetry written in dactylic hexameter?

a)

Natural History

b)

Eclogues

c)

Aeneid

d)

Georgics

9.

What is the nature of the Georgics written by Vergil?

a)

Epic

b)

Pastoral

c)

Didactic

d)

Historical

10.

Which epic poem outlines the foundation of Rome?

a)

Annals

b)

Histories

c)

Eclogues

d)

Aeneid

11.

Who wrote the Annals?

a)

Tacitus

b)

Pliny the Younger

c)

Maecenas

d)

Vergil

12.

Which work by Tacitus is about the lives of the Julio-Claudian emperors?

a)

Annals

b)

Natural History

c)

Histories

d)

Georgics

13.

Who was a political advisor to Augustus?

a)

Tacitus

b)

Pliny the Elder

c)

Vergil

d)

Maecenas

14.

Which work by Tacitus covers the Year of the Four Emperors?

a)

Aeneid

b)

Histories

c)

Eclogues

d)

Annals

15.

Who is the addressee of Pliny's Vesuvius letters?

a)

Vergil

b)

Maecenas

c)

Pliny the Elder

d)

Tacitus