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Martial
  • 1. On whom was Martial dependent for his dinner and dress?
A) The Roman Senate
B) His family members
C) The Emperor himself
D) Wealthy friends and patrons
  • 2. Which poets received favors from Augustus and Maecenas without being blamed?
A) Juvenal and Pliny
B) Cicero and Seneca
C) Virgil and Horace
D) Ovid and Catullus
  • 3. What is the term used in the text for the dole accepted by Romans?
A) Denarius
B) Sportula
C) Patrocinium
D) Clientela
  • 4. Where was Martial's small country house located?
A) Outside of Rome
B) At Baiae
C) In Tibur
D) Near Nomentum
  • 5. Who described Martial as having 'as much good nature as wit and pungency'?
A) Pliny the Younger
B) Juvenal
C) Maecenas
D) Augustus
  • 6. Which two qualities did Martial most admire in his friends?
A) Wit and satire
B) Education and status
C) Fides and simplicitas
D) Wealth and power
  • 7. What did Martial do regarding bad emperors after their death?
A) He burned his works about them
B) He censured them
C) He praised their memory
D) He ignored them
  • 8. According to the text, what was a constant threat in ancient Roman cities?
A) Fire
B) Earthquakes
C) Plague
D) Flooding
  • 9. Why does the text suggest some people deliberately set fire to their property?
A) To protest against the government
B) To start a new building project
C) To hide evidence of crime
D) To collect insurance money
  • 10. What common building material made ancient cities vulnerable to fire?
A) Stone
B) Wood
C) Brick
D) Marble
  • 11. For what reason did Martial chide a man named Rufus?
A) Flogging his cook
B) Being a hypocrite
C) Ignoring his poetry
D) Stealing from his patron
  • 12. What title is Martial often given due to his biting wit and lewdness?
A) The poet of the people
B) The father of satire
C) The original insult comic
D) The greatest Roman historian
  • 13. What does the text claim regarding the Epigrams as a source of linguistic information?
A) They are the primary source for formal Latin grammar
B) They contain no colloquialisms
C) They are written in a dead dialect
D) They are important sources of Latin obscene words
  • 14. In his later career, what did Martial send to patrons instead of visiting in person?
A) A poem or small volume of poems
B) A letter of apology
C) A monetary payment
D) A decorative gift
  • 15. What does Martial's work suggest about his feelings toward hypocrisy?
A) He practiced it often
B) He ignored it completely
C) He disliked it
D) He encouraged it
  • 16. Where was Martial born?
A) Gaul
B) Bilbilis, Hispania
C) Athens, Greece
D) Rome, Italy
  • 17. Approximately how many of Martial's epigrams have survived?
A) 1,561
B) 1,235
C) 86
D) 2,000
  • 18. In what year did Martial move to Rome?
A) AD 64
B) AD 103
C) AD 38
D) AD 86
  • 19. Which of these emperors did NOT rule during the publication of Martial's twelve books of Epigrams?
A) Augustus
B) Trajan
C) Domitian
D) Nerva
  • 20. What rank was conferred upon Martial by the privilege of the semestris tribunatus?
A) Senator rank
B) Imperial advisor
C) Military commander
D) Equestrian rank
  • 21. What was the title of Martial's earliest extant work?
A) Liber spectaculorum
B) Apophoreta
C) Xenia
D) The Thebaid
  • 22. Who was the lady Martial resided with after returning to Hispania?
A) Marcella
B) Flaccilla
C) Livia
D) Julia
  • 23. Which Roman poet does the text suggest Martial had a mutual dislike for?
A) Lucan
B) Catullus
C) Juvenal
D) Statius
  • 24. What form of poetry are 1,235 of Martial's epigrams written in?
A) Elegiac couplets
B) Iambic trimeter
C) Blank verse
D) Dactylic hexameter
  • 25. How did Martial describe his own hair in contrast to an effeminate Greek?
A) Curly golden locks
B) Long and flowing
C) Thin and receding
D) Stiff Hispanian hair
  • 26. What was the name of Martial's father?
A) Fronto
B) Seneca
C) Quintilian
D) Crispinus
  • 27. What was the name of Martial's mother?
A) Julia
B) Marcella
C) Flaccilla
D) Livia
  • 28. Which of these authors does Martial claim to belong to the school of?
A) Virgil
B) Ovid
C) Catullus
D) Horace
  • 29. When did Martial's work become highly valued again?
A) The Renaissance
B) The Carolingian revival
C) The 21st century
D) The Romantic movement
  • 30. Which movement caused Martial's works to become unfashionable?
A) The Renaissance
B) The 21st century scholarly movement
C) The Romantic movement
D) The Carolingian revival
  • 31. Which poet shows the influence of Martial in late classical literature?
A) Wakefield Foster
B) Franklin P Adams
C) Juvenal
D) Joseph S Salemi
  • 32. Who is the author mentioned as a translator of selected epigrams?
A) Glen Bowersock
B) Wakefield Foster
C) Hugh Chisholm
D) Elizabeth Duke
  • 33. Glen Bowersock describes Martial using which two terms?
A) Classical Writer & Politician
B) Court Poet & Pornographer
C) Renaissance Critic & Scholar
D) Romantic Poet & Historian
  • 34. The Latin Library hosts Martial's works under which title?
A) Epigrammaton libri
B) The Tertullian Project
C) The Siglo de Oro
D) Perseus Digital Library
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