Religion in ancient Rome - Quiz
A) The military generals B) The educated elite C) The enslaved population D) The common farmers
A) Ceres B) Mars C) Jupiter D) Neptune
A) A sow B) A goat C) A horse D) A bull
A) Novemdialis B) Caristia C) Feralia D) Parentalia
A) To the Manes-gods B) To the eternal life C) To the buried ancestor D) To the underworld king
A) From spectacular funerals to monumental community endowments B) From monumental tombs to simple burials C) From public temples to private family shrines D) From private burials to state-sponsored cremation
A) Di Manes B) Genii C) Lares D) Penates
A) The seventh day B) The eighth day C) The third day D) The tenth day
A) Attending Parentalia, Feralia, and Caristia B) Performing animal sacrifices C) Building monumental tombs D) Drinking wine at burial sites
A) As a holy relic B) As a symbol of rebirth C) As a property of the state D) As a ritual pollution
A) They explicitly forbade any mention of age B) They marked the day of death as a transition to new life C) They focused on the social status of the family D) They omitted the name of the deceased
A) Resting in the light B) Burned by the sun C) Dedicated under the trowel D) To the silent earth
A) That it invited drunken practices B) That it honored the wrong gods C) That it caused a food shortage D) That it was too expensive for the poor
A) Large banquets of meat B) Gold coins and jewelry C) Statues of the deceased D) Wine, incense, and crops
A) As a strictly prohibited pagan ritual B) As an opportunity to give alms to the poor C) As a waste of necessary resources D) As a way to communicate with saints
A) Four B) Twelve C) Six D) Eight
A) The high priestess B) The Emperor C) The Senate D) The Pontifex Maximus
A) She was exiled B) She was forced to marry C) She was fined D) She was buried alive
A) A decorative incense B) A ceremonial wine C) A sacred oil D) Salted flour used in sacrifices
A) Servius Tullius B) Augustus C) Claudius D) Romulus
A) Theodosius I B) Gratian C) Augustus D) Claudius
A) Theodosius I B) Gratian C) Claudius D) Augustus
A) Garlands B) Bread C) Mola salsa D) Incense
A) Parentalia B) Fordicidia C) Parilia D) Vestalia
A) Based on military service B) Inherited and familial C) Religious rather than personal or social D) Political and financial
A) The fascinus B) The golden eagles C) The Sibylline Books D) The sacred shields
A) Until the fall of the Republic B) Only until the 1st century C) Until the reign of Augustus D) Well into the 4th century
A) Within private houses B) Outdoors C) Inside the cella D) In underground vaults
A) A sacred space surveyed through augury B) A tomb for ancestors C) A decorative building D) A market square
A) Cicero B) Vitruvius C) Servius Tullius D) Augustus
A) Servius Tullius B) Q. Fabius Gurges C) Vitruvius D) Julius Caesar
A) 44 BC B) 500 BC C) 295 BC D) 100 BC
A) A belief in immortal gods B) A native creation myth C) A hierarchy of heavens D) A system of religious rites
A) Gods had no interest in human affairs B) Some gods favored Rome because Rome honored them C) Gods were strictly limited to Italian lands D) Gods were intrinsically foreign and alien
A) Liber B) Jupiter C) Mars D) Quirinus
A) Greek B) Egyptian C) Persian D) Celtic
A) Onuava B) Minerva C) The Sibyl D) Juno
A) Monotheistic B) Polytheistic C) Atheistic D) Animistic
A) Economic dominance B) Collective piety C) Democratic institutions D) Technological superiority
A) Persians B) Gauls C) Egyptians D) Greeks
A) Augustus B) Julius Caesar C) Numa Pompilius D) Romulus
A) 380 AD B) 27 BC C) 509 BC D) 186 BC
A) Numa Pompilius B) Augustus C) Cicero D) Julius Caesar
A) Numa B) Aeneas C) Romulus D) Tarquinius Priscus
A) Venus B) Diana C) Juno D) Minerva
A) The Vestals B) The Senate C) The Flamines D) The Salii
A) Arcadia B) Alba Longa C) Sabine territory D) Troy
A) Hercules B) Jupiter C) Quirinus D) Mars
A) Juno B) Diana C) Rhea Silvia D) Venus
A) The Triumph B) Compitalia C) Consualia D) Lupercalia
A) Palladium B) Spolia opima C) Penates D) Ara Maxima
A) Flamines B) Salii C) Fetial priests D) Vestals
A) Romulus B) Augustus C) Cicero D) Numa
A) Sixty B) Twenty C) One hundred D) Forty
A) Dies fasti B) Dies nefasti C) Saeculum D) Ludi
A) Religious sacrifices B) Political elections C) Funeral rites D) Games
A) Fortuna Primigenia B) Saturn C) Bona Dea D) Liber
A) The Emperor B) The Senate C) Women D) Priests only
A) Naval battles B) Gladiator contests C) Religious debates D) Poetry recitals
A) The priests B) The emperors C) Foreign dignitaries D) The citizens
A) The Vestal Virgins B) Church Fathers C) The Roman Emperor D) The Senate
A) Cicero B) Julius Caesar C) Ovid D) Augustus
A) Compitalia B) Fasti C) The Aeneid D) Saeculum
A) A priest B) A vates C) An emperor D) A gladiator
A) Saturnalia B) Compitalia C) Bona Dea D) Ludi Romani
A) The physical sacrifice of animals. B) The burning of incense. C) The spoken word. D) The construction of temples.
A) Lemures. B) Compitalia. C) Ver sacrum. D) Etrusca.
A) Libations of wine. B) Planting of sacred groves. C) Animal sacrifice. D) Incense burning.
A) The head and hooves. B) The entrails. C) The skin and hair. D) The horns and tail.
A) Hadrian. B) Cicero. C) Livy. D) Pliny.
A) The emperor B) Vesta C) Their paterfamilias D) The gods of the state
A) The domestic slaves B) The mater familias C) The paterfamilias D) The bailiff
A) Superstitio B) Pietas C) Vitia D) Religio
A) Superstitio B) Mos maiorum C) Vitia D) Pietas
A) An act of sacrifice B) A religious festival C) Divine anger D) A prayer to ancestors
A) Mos maiorum B) Res publica C) Do ut des D) Genius
A) Contemplation B) Mythology C) Philosophy D) Action
A) Di parentes B) Vitia C) Lararia D) Genii
A) Bailiffs B) The censor C) The slaves only D) The state priests
A) Yes, but only for patricians B) No C) Yes, but only for the military D) Yes, it was strictly segregated
A) August 1st B) January 3rd C) December 25th D) March 15th
A) The college of pontifices B) Cicero C) Romulus D) An augur
A) Cursus honorum B) Pomerium C) Ius augurum D) Via Sacra
A) The Magistrate B) The Pontifex Maximus C) The augur D) The Emperor
A) The liver B) The lungs C) The brain D) The heart
A) Etruscan B) Egyptian C) Syrian D) Greek
A) Feeding the poor during famines B) Celebrating military victories C) Sacrificing to the emperor D) Expiating major prodigies
A) Exile to a foreign land B) A public festival C) Drowning the child D) Offering gold to the temple
A) Gaius Marius B) Verres C) Sulla D) Gaius Gracchus
A) Military commanders B) The common people C) The Senate D) Foreign diviners
A) Ceres B) Isis C) Mithra D) Attis
A) Foreign merchants B) Senators C) Soldiers D) Slaves
A) Second Punic War B) Gallic Wars C) Peloponnesian War D) Trojan War
A) Bacchanals B) Zoroastrians C) Eleusinians D) Galli
A) Public execution B) Human sacrifice C) Self-castration D) Temple looting
A) Augustus B) Julian C) Trajan D) Nero
A) Eleusinian Mysteries B) Bacchanalia C) Mithraic Mysteries D) Thesmophoria
A) The Aeneid B) The Republic C) The Golden Ass D) Metamorphoses
A) Pompeii B) Rome C) Carthage D) Greece
A) Isis B) Mithras C) Bacchanalia D) Magna Mater |
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