Stage 10 test

Question 1

G or R?: Odyssey

Answer 1

Greek

Question 2

G or R?: Homer

Answer 2

Greek

Question 3

G or R?: Aeschylus

Answer 3

Greek

Question 4

G or R?: Sophocles

Answer 4

Greek

Question 5

G or R?: Euripides

Answer 5

Greek

Question 6

G or R?: Vergil

Answer 6

Roman

Question 7

G or R?: Horace

Answer 7

Roman

Question 8

At what age would children start the first stage of education?

Answer 8

7

Question 9

Greek or Roman?: Iliad

Answer 9

Greek

Question 10

In the first stage of education, what was the teacher known as?

Answer 10

Lūdī magister

Question 11

What was the slave that escorted the student?

Answer 11

Paedagōgus

Question 12

Parents had to pay ______ for schooling.

Answer 12

A small fee

Question 13

About how many pupils attended the first stage of education?

Answer 13

30

Question 14

They wrote on _______.

Answer 14

Tabulae

Question 15

What was a stilus made out of?

Answer 15

Metal, bone, or ivory

Question 16

Most children would’ve finished their schooling at the age of…

Answer 16

11

Question 17

What was the teacher of the second stage know as?

Answer 17

Grammaticus

Question 18

When would the child leave the Grammaticus?

Answer 18

Age 15 or 16

Question 19

What was the third stage teacher known as?

Answer 19

Rhetor

Question 20

What did the Lūdī magister teach?

Answer 20

Read and write simple Latin and Greek and do some simple arithmetic.

Question 21

What did the Grammaticus teach?

Answer 21

Greek and Roman writers, learn long passages.

Question 22

What did the Rhetor teach?

Answer 22

More advanced lessons in literature and trained his students in the art of public speaking. (Controversia)

Question 23

The school day began early and lasted for _ hours with a short _____ at ______.

Answer 23

6, break, midday