Test 4

A  palaestra

B  caldarium

C  tepidarium

D  apodyterium

A  “300 or so”

B  “less than 50”

C  “less than ten”

D  “less that 100”

A  a scale model

B  a team of archeologists

C  a plaza in modern Luxemberg.

D  animation

A  The Greeks

B  The Mesopotamians

C  The people of Gaul

D  The Egyptians

A  Latin

B  English

C  Greek

D  Italian

A  “an imaginary place.”

B  “closer in concept to Ancient Egypt than any other place I can think of.”

C  “the most exactly dipiction in world literature.”

D  “closer in concept to New York City that any other place I can think of.”

A  A 15th Century papal secretary.  He wrote Roma Instaurata, or Rome Restored, a text on Roman architecture.

B  He designed the Roman aqueduct system.

C  Director of the project Greece Reborn, started at the University of Virginia in 1949 and not completed until 1993.

D  The chief architect of the Pantheon.  His renderings are the most complete architectural drafts from Ancient Rome.

A  The purpose of the valerium

B  Which public toilets were for the women and which public toliets were for the men

C  Why Rome fell

D  How large sculptures were transported

A  a  historian

B  second emperor of Rome

C  third emperor of Rome

D  author of Dialogue on Oratory

A  Satire

B  Haiku

C  Romance novels

D  Epic poetry

A  The Appian Way

B  The Forum

C  The Pantheon

D  The Colosseum

A  a poetry manual

B  a code of conduct

C   a road

D  an architectural manual

A  it is located in Rome

B  it celebrated the the victory over the Dacians

C  it was ordered built by Emperor Trojan

D  its huge pictoral scroll features mythical animals and sea creatures

A  “painted garden”

B  “paper statue”

C  “by the people”

D  “fool the eye”

A  Pompeii

B  Rome

C  Pont du Gard

D  Gaul

A  where the plebeians — a class of farmers and small landowners — sat when the Roman Republic was in session

B  a Roman civil code established around 450 b.c.e.

C  where the transfer of land takes place

D  a mathmatic system using Roman numerals

A  Trajan’s Victory Column

B  The Point du Gard Aqueduct

C  The Parthenon

D  The Pantheon

A  Horace

B  Virgil

C  Senaca

D  Ovid

A  Romulus and Remus

B  Apollo and Zeus

C  Caesar and Mark Anthony

D  Augustus and Caesar

A  Agoras

B  The Colosseum

C  The Forum

D  The Hippodrome

A  Horace

B  Ovid

C  Virgil

D  Juvenal

A  Virgil

B  Horace

C  Ovid

D  Homer

A  The Parthenon

B  The Circus Maximus

C  The Pantheon

D  The Roman Colosseum

A  “Literary giants”

B  “A succession of powerful Emperors”

C  “A genius for practical organization”

D  “A lack of clear goals”

A  a gazebo

B  A barrell vault

C  an atrium

D  an epistle