WorksheetsRoman Literature
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who is the author of the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid?
Vergil
Tacitus
Maecenas
Pliny the Younger
Which Roman figure was a lawyer and magistrate under Emperor Trajan?
Vergil
Tacitus
Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Elder
Who wrote the Natural History?
Tacitus
Maecenas
Pliny the Elder
Vergil
Which work is considered a model for the modern encyclopedia?
Histories
Aeneid
Annals
Natural History
Who was the maternal uncle of Pliny the Younger?
Tacitus
Maecenas
Pliny the Elder
Vergil
Which Roman figure died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?
Vergil
Tacitus
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Who was the patron of Vergil?
Pliny the Elder
Tacitus
Pliny the Younger
Maecenas
Which work by Vergil is a pastoral poetry written in dactylic hexameter?
Natural History
Eclogues
Aeneid
Georgics
What is the nature of the Georgics written by Vergil?
Epic
Pastoral
Didactic
Historical
Which epic poem outlines the foundation of Rome?
Annals
Histories
Eclogues
Aeneid
Who wrote the Annals?
Tacitus
Pliny the Younger
Maecenas
Vergil
Which work by Tacitus is about the lives of the Julio-Claudian emperors?
Annals
Natural History
Histories
Georgics
Who was a political advisor to Augustus?
Tacitus
Pliny the Elder
Vergil
Maecenas
Which work by Tacitus covers the Year of the Four Emperors?
Aeneid
Histories
Eclogues
Annals
Who is the addressee of Pliny's Vesuvius letters?
Vergil
Maecenas
Pliny the Elder
Tacitus
