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