Roman Life

Question 1

What was the basic shape of the theatre?

Answer 1

Semi-circle

Question 2

Were play put on every day in Pompeii?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

At what time of the day did plays begin?

Answer 3

Morning

Question 4

A) Which people did not had to get to theatre early in order to get good seats?
B) why?

Answer 4

A) Councillors and important people

B) they had tokens

Question 5

A) How many people could watch a play in the Theatre in Pompeii?
B)was it free?

Answer 5

A)5000 people

B) yes

Question 6

What was there in the theatre instead of roof?

Answer 6

An awning

Question 7

How many actors played the different parts in a pantomime?

Answer 7

1

Question 8

Who told the story while it was being mimed?

Answer 8

A chorus

Question 9

What kind of people became actors usually?

Answer 9

Slaves or freedmen

Question 10

What two reasons were there for actors to wear masks?

Answer 10

• to pretend to be another person.

- to be scary/funny

Question 11

Give 3 things that slaves couldn’t do but ordinary romans could?

Answer 11

Complain to a judge
Get married
Own personal things

Question 12

What were the 3 most commons ways to became slaves?

Answer 12

Prisoner of war
Taken by pirates
Children of slaves

Question 13

A) How many slaves did Pedanius Secunduss own?
B) what happened to him?
C) what happened to them?

Answer 13

A) 400
B) he was murdered by one of them
C) they were all killed

Question 14

Give two examples of unpleasant jobs in the countryside

Answer 14

Work in mines

Work with animals

Question 15

Give examples of skilled jobs in house, for which a slave had to be clever and trained

Answer 15

Cooks

Musician

Question 16

What reason was there for treating all slaves well?

Answer 16

So that they are happy and worker better.

Question 17

What reason was there for treating a SKILLED SLAVE well?

Answer 17

It would be more expensive to replace

Question 18

What shape was the amphitheatre?

Answer 18

Oval

Question 19

What were there awnings in the amphitheatre for?

Answer 19

To protect from sun

Question 20

Which buildings in Pompeii had a large awning?

Answer 20

The large theatre, the amphitheatre

Question 21

Was the amphitheatre free?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

What kind of people usually became gladiators?

Answer 22

Slaves

War prisoners

Question 23

How would you know a gladiator was a…

a) murmillo
b) retiarius

Answer 23

A) they had a fish shape in his helmet

B) had nets and tridents

Question 24

What did it meant when the audience turned thumbs down in a gladiator fight?

Answer 24

Set the gladiator free (don’t kill him)

Question 25

What did it meant when the gladiator raised his arm?

Answer 25

He surrendered

Question 26

Who made the final decision on the fate of the defeated gladiator?

Answer 26

Man in charge

Question 27

What happened at a venatio?

Answer 27

Animal hunt

Question 28

What was the word for a gladiator who fought in a venatio?

Answer 28

Bestiarius

Question 29

Who wrote about the riot which involved Pompeii and nuceria?

Answer 29

Tacitus

Question 30

Were the public baths free?

Answer 30

No

Question 31

A man went to the........... before going in the baths

Answer 31

Palaestra

Question 32

What did a man do in the palaestra?

Answer 32

Excercise | Greet friends

Question 33

What was the apodyterium

Answer 33

Dressing room

Question 34

What did the ostiarius do?

Answer 34

Took his cloths while he was in the baths and looked after it for him.

Question 35

A) Which room was the hot one? | B)did it have a bath?

Answer 35

A) caldarium | B) yes

Question 36

A)Which room was the warm room? | B) did it have a bath?

Answer 36

A)tepidarium | B)no

Question 37

A)What was the olive oil used for in the baths? | B) what was the strigil used for?

Answer 37

A) to clean themselves | B) scraping

Question 38

Where was there cold water apart from the frigidarium?

Answer 38

Caldarium

Question 39

A) what is a hypocaust? | B) name one disadvantage of having heating under the floor?

Answer 39

A) underfloor Heating channel system | B) it might burn if the floor is made out of wood

Question 40

At what age did a boy go to school for the first time?

Answer 40

7

Question 41

What was the name for the teacher of the first school?

Answer 41

Ludi magister

Question 42

At what age were girls usually married?

Answer 42

14

Question 43

When they went to school, pupils were escorted by a slave know as .... who was responsible for their behaviour and protection.

Answer 43

paedagogus

Question 44

How many slaves accompanied the pupil to school?

Answer 44

2

Question 45

What did the slave who accompanied child to school do?(not paedagogus)

Answer 45

Carried books and writing materials

Question 46

What did pupils do in the ludis magister school?

Answer 46

Write and read Greek and Latin and perhaps some simple arithmetic

Question 47

Where did they wrote stuff?

Answer 47

Tabulae(wooden tablets) coated with thin film of wax

Question 48

A)What did they use to write things? | B)what was it made of?

Answer 48

A)stilus | B)it was a thin stick of metal,bone or ivory.

Question 49

Why was the other end of the stilus flat?

Answer 49

To rub out mistakes and make wax smooth again

Question 50

What was papyrus made out of?

Answer 50

Fibres of papyrus that grew near river Nile in Egypt

Question 51

The second school was ran by...

Answer 51

grammaticus

Question 52

What did they learn in the grammaticus?

Answer 52

Writing in latin and Greek

Question 53

At what age did they enter the grammaticus ?

Answer 53

11

Question 54

The third school was the school of the...

Answer 54

Rhetor

Question 55

At what age did a boy attend to the Rhetor?

Answer 55

16

Question 56

What did the boys learn in the rhetor?

Answer 56

Literature and public speaking