Quiz

1. What legend is connected with the end of the monarchy in Rome? (Page 660)
   a. the legend of Anna Perenna
   b. the legend of the Horatii
   c. the legend of Lucretia
   d. the legend of Hersilia
   
2. What is the Tarpeian Rock? (Page 657)
   a. a memorial to Lucretia
   b. a place of execution
   c. a sacred stone
   d. the place where Romulus and Remus were suckled
   
3. Who was the daughter of Latinus and eventual wife of Aeneas? (Page 647)
   a. Amata
   b. Juturna
   c. Lavinia
   d. Celaeno
   
4. What was the ancile? (Page 627)
   a. a shield which fell from heaven
   b. a woodpecker
   c. an epithet of Mars
   d. a sacred basket
   
5. What poet wrote the Fasti? (Page 624)
   a. Livy
   b. Lucan
   c. Vergil
   d. Ovid
   
6. Who is Aeneas' chief opponent among the Latins in Vergil's Aeneid? (Page 649)
   a. Turnus
   b. Evander
   c. Mezentius
   d. Camilla
   
7. After Aeneas and his men left Dido and her new city, Dido: (Page 650-652)
   a. prayed to the gods that he would be safe
   b. bribed him with half the kingdom to return
   c. renamed her city Troy
   d. killed herself
   
8. In one version of the story, Romulus killed Remus after Remus: (Page 653-655)
   a. worshiped Egyptian gods
   b. captured the Sabine women
   c. jumped over the walls Romulus was building for his city
   d. killed the she-wolf that had raised them
   
9. The early Romans seized the Sabine women in an attempt to: (Page 655-657)
   a. populate their city
   b. destroy the area of Sabia
   c. prove the superiority of men
   d. show ironically that physical force was not justifiable
   
10. Who was the last king of Rome? (Page 660)
    a. Romulus
    b. Tarquinius Priscus
    c. Numa Pompilius
    d. Tarquinius Superbus
    
11. Who had a temple that stood near the Circus Maximus, in the bustling commercial district? (Page 642)
    a. Juno Moneta
    b. Mercury
    c. Plutus
    d. Castor and Pollux
    
12. Diana was equated with: (Page 638)
    a. Artemis
    b. Athena
    c. Hera
    d. Demeter
    
13. The Lares protected: (Page 641)
    a. government buildings
    b. ships
    c. households
    d. temples
    
14. The Pentates were spirits of: (Page 640-641)
    a. farms
    b. ghosts
    c. athletes
    d. households
    
15. Ceres was equated with: (Page 633)
    a. Demeter
    b. Hera
    c. Artemis
    d. Aphrodite
    
16. Two noblemen smeared with sacrificial blood ran around the Palatine and hit women with leather straps in the: (Page 635)
    a. Saturnalia
    b. Circus Maximus
    c. Lupercalia
    d. Thesmophoria
    
17. Jupiter was equated with: (Page 627)
    a. Hephaestus
    b. Zeus
    c. Ares
    d. Hermes
    
18. What Italian goddess was worshiped at Aricia near Lake Nemi? (Page 638)
    a. Diana
    b. Artemis
    c. Ceres
    d. Fauna
    
19. Who was the mother of Aeneas? (Page 636)
    a. Juno
    b. Venus
    c. Priapus
    d. Roma
    
20. What major Italian festival was celebrated in midwinter? (Page 632)
    a. the Liberalia
    b. the Cerealia
    c. the Saturnalia
    d. the Lupercalia
    
21. Which of the following was not an Italian deity associated with fire? (Page 630-632)
    a. Vesta
    b. Vulcan
    c. Cacus
    d. Hestia
    
22. With what deities did Jupiter share his temple on the Capitoline to form a triad? (Page 627)
    a. Juno, and Minerva
    b. Juno and Mars
    c. Juno and Venus
    d. Minerva and Venus
    
23. In what capacity was the chief Italian sky-god worshiped on the Capitoline Hill? (Page 627)
    a. Jupiter Latiaris
    b. Jupiter Dius Fidius
    c. Jupiter Optimus Maximus
    d. Jupiter Indiges
    
24. What was the original function of Mars? (Page 626)
    a. He was a god of war.
    b. He was an agricultural deity.
    c. He was the god of crossroads.
    d. He was a god of the Underworld.
    
25. Who was the Italian god presiding over beginnings and depicted with two faces? (Page 624)
    a. Jupiter
    b. Mars
    c. Janus
    d. Bellona