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  • 1. 
    What was the main language used for writing during Ancient Rome?

  • Latin
  • German
  • English
  • Spanish

  • 2. 
    What material was used for writing important documents?

  • Wooden slabs
  • Wool cloth
  • Stone tablets
  • Papyrus or Parchment

  • 3. 
    Which writer was a poet who wrote love poems and the epic Metamorphoses.

  • Livy
  • Horace
  • Virgil
  • Ovid

  • 4. 
    What is rhetoric?

  • A type of epic poem
  • An ability to speak in public and persuade others
  • A philosophy that said the universe is ordered and rational
  • A type of writing used for government documents

  • 5. 
    What did the Ancient Romans keep written records of?

  • All of the above
  • Wills
  • Marriages
  • Legal Trials

  • 6. 
    What was the poet Virgil famous for?

  • A book about stoicism called Meditations
  • A collection of lyric poems called the Odes
  • The epic poem the Aeneid about the Trojan hero Aeneas
  • Writing many volumes of Roman history

  • 7. 
    Which of these writers was known for his speeches and rhetoric?

  • Ovid
  • Cicero
  • Virgil
  • Horace

  • 8. 
    What is stoicism?

  • A philosophy that said the universe is ordered and rational
  • A type of epic poem
  • An ability to speak in public and persuade others
  • A type of writing used for government documents

  • 9. 
    What Roman historian wrote 142 volumes of history covering the founding of Rome to Augustus?

  • Livy
  • Horace
  • Ovid
  • Virgil

  • 10. 
    Which of the following was used for day-to-day writing in Ancient Rome?

  • Wax tablets
  • Stone tablets
  • Parchment
  • Papyrus
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