Quiz 2: Lessons 4-5

Question 1

Roman priest who interprets signs of nature

Answer 1

augur

Question 2

arena for horse racing and other Roman games

Answer 2

Circus Maximus

Question 3

Roman commoner

Answer 3

plebeian

Question 4

an officer of the king who carried his symbol of power (fasces)

Answer 4

lictor

Question 5

chief priest; established by Numa

Answer 5

Pontifex Maximus

Question 6

voting body made up of Roman centuries

Answer 6

Comitia Centuriata

Question 7

assembly of patricians who each had a vote; elected kings

Answer 7

Comitia Curiata

Question 8

divine or prophetic sign

Answer 8

auspice

Question 9

king of the Sabines who ruled with Romulus

Answer 9

Tatius

Question 10

kinsman of Tarquin the Proud; one of 1st consuls

Answer 10

Lucius Junius Brutus

Question 11

only Tarquin allowed to remain in Rome; other 1st consul

Answer 11

Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus

Question 12

defeated the Curiatii brothers in the war with Albans

Answer 12

Horatius

Question 13

Roman woman who betrayed the Capital to the Sabines

Answer 13

Tarpeia

Question 14

historian for the period of the Roman Republic

Answer 14

Livy

Question 15

Who said, “There was nothing that did more advance the greatness of Rome, than that she did always unite and incorporate those whom she conquered into herself.”

Answer 15

Plutarch