- 1. - A Roman writer who drew some of his ideas from Homer’s odyssey and has an epic poem called the Aeneid.
A) Ptolemy
B) Spartacus
C) Galen
D) Virgil
E) Horace
- 2. - The poet who used Greek models to write satires and he composed odes.
A) Galen
B) Horace
C) Spartacus
D) Ptolemy
E) Virgil
- 3. - A Greek doctor who brought many medical ideas to Rome and emphasized the importance of anatomy.
A) Spartacus
B) Galen
C) Virgil
D) Horace
E) Ptolemy
- 4. - Another important scientist of the Roman Empire who studied the sky and mapped different stars.
A) Virgil
B) Horace
C) Spartacus
D) Galen
E) Ptolemy
- 5. - A gladiator who led a slave revolt in Italy in 73 B.C..
A) Ptolemy
B) Horace
C) Spartacus
D) Galen
E) Virgil
A) Anatomy
B) Vault
C) Satire
D) Ode
E) Forum
- 7. - Works that poked fun at human weaknesses.
A) Satire
B) Anatomy
C) Ode
D) Vault
E) Forum
- 8. - Poems that express strong emotions about life.
A) Vault
B) Satire
C) Forum
D) Anatomy
E) Ode
- 9. - The study of body structure.
A) Anatomy
B) Satire
C) Forum
D) Ode
E) Vault
- 10. - An open space that served as a marketplace and public square.
A) Anatomy
B) Vault
C) Forum
D) Ode
E) Satire
- 11. - People who fought animals and each other, most were enslaved people, criminals, or poor people.
A) Paterfamilias
B) Gladiator
C) Constantine
D) Diocletian
E) Rhetoric
- 12. - “father of the family,” he had complete control over family members.
A) Gladiator
B) Paterfamilias
C) Rhetoric
D) Diocletian
E) Constantine
- 13. - Public speaking. Boys learned this in school along with reading and writing.
A) Paterfamilias
B) Diocletian
C) Gladiator
D) Rhetoric
E) Constantine
- 14. - A general who became an emperor in A.D. 284. He introduced reforms to stop the empire’s decline.
A) Gladiator
B) Diocletian
C) Paterfamilias
D) Constantine
E) Rhetoric
- 15. - Another general who became emperor in A.D. 312 after a period of conflict when Diocletian retired from office.
A) Gladiator
B) Rhetoric
C) Constantine
D) Paterfamilias
E) Diocletian
- 16. - A new emperor who finally gained control and ended the fighting after Constantine died in A.D. 337.
A) Inflation
B) Plaque
C) Theodosius
D) Odoacer
E) Alaric
- 17. - The Visigoth leader who him and his soldiers captured Rome itself in A.D. 410.
A) Plaque
B) Inflation
C) Odoacer
D) Alaric
E) Theodosius
- 18. - A Germanic general who took control and overthrew the western empire in A.D. 476.
A) Theodosius
B) Alaric
C) Inflation
D) Plaque
E) Odoacer
- 19. - A disease that spreads widely.
A) Theodosius
B) Alaric
C) Plaque
D) Inflation
E) Odoacer
- 20. - Rapidly increasing prices.
A) Alaric
B) Inflation
C) Theodosius
D) Plaque
E) Odoacer
- 21. - Exchange goods without using money.
A) Belisarius
B) Barter
C) Theodora
D) Reform
E) Justinian
- 22. - Political changes to make things better.
A) Reform
B) Barter
C) Theodora
D) Belisarius
E) Justinian
- 23. - Became emperor of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527 and ruled until A.D. 565.
A) Theodora
B) Belisarius
C) Barter
D) Reform
E) Justinian
- 24. - Justinian’s wife, the empress, who helped him run the empire.
A) Theodora
B) Justinian
C) Barter
D) Belisarius
E) Reform
- 25. - The general who Justinian ordered to strengthen and lead the Byzantine army.
A) Justinian
B) Theodora
C) Belisarius
D) Barter
E) Reform
- 26. - A person who led an ordered group of legal scholars to reform the law code.
A) Theodora
B) Tribonian
C) Mosaic
D) Regent
E) Saint
- 27. - Pictures made from many bits of colored glass or stone.
A) Regent
B) Mosaic
C) Tribonian
D) Theodora
E) Saint
- 28. - Christian holy people.
A) Regent
B) Mosaic
C) Saint
D) Tribonian
E) Theodora
- 29. - A person who stands in for a ruler who is too young or too ill to govern.
A) Mosaic
B) Tribonian
C) Regent
D) Saint
E) Theodora
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