Quiz 1: Introduction & Lessons 1-3

Question 1

capital city of the Latin League

Answer 1

Alba Longa

Question 2

rescued and raised Romulus and Remus

Answer 2

Faustulus

Question 3

group of about 30 communities joined toegether for protection

Answer 3

the Latin League

Question 4

rightful king of Alba Longa; dethroned by Amulius

Answer 4

Numitor

Question 5

brother of Romulus

Answer 5

Remus

Question 6

defeated Latins; ruled as Latin king, founded Alba Longa

Answer 6

Aeneas

Question 7

hill on which Romulus started his city

Answer 7

Palatine

Question 8

a government ruled by a single authority

Answer 8

Empire

Question 9

Who said, “To be ignorant of what happened before you were born, is to remain forever a child.”

Answer 9

Cicero

Question 10

Who said, “So shall it be henceforth with everyone who leaps over my walls.”

Answer 10

Romulus

Question 11

What is the threefold mission of Rome?

Answer 11

To conquer, to govern/rule, and to civilize

Question 12

What error did C.S. Lewis describe as “the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited.” and what is the only cure?

Answer 12

Chronological snobbery; it can only be cured by studying history

Question 13

What did George Santayana say about the importance of history?

Answer 13

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”