Latin for Americans, Level 1

Unit 7: Schools, Sites, and Sights in the Roman Empire

Glimpses of Roman Life: Education

1
Roman children learned the alphabet by using letters cut out of ____.
A)clay
B)wood
C)ivory
D)stone
2
Roman schools were often run by ____.
A)elderly citizens
B)Greek slaves
C)the students' parents
D)government officials and statesmen
3
The children were taken to and from school by slaves called paedagōgī, meaning ____.
A)keepers of those learning
B)men who know the way
C)helpers of the students
D)those who lead children
4
Arithmetic, reading, and ____ were the basis of the elementary school curriculum.
A)science
B)public speaking
C)writing
D)citizenship
5
In the third century B.C., schoolteacher Livius Andronicus translated for his students the famous Greek work, ____.
A)the Odyssey,
B)Antigone
C)the Iliad
D)Theogony
6
The students wrote on papyrus or on ____.
A)the ground
B)small chalk boards
C)wax tablets
D)stretched leather
7
Papyrus was an expensive kind of paper made from thin strips of reed that grew ____.
A)on the banks of the Tiber River
B)in Southern Asia
C)in Egypt
D)along the coastline
8
Originally, classroom texts were ____.
A)extremely rare and very heavy
B)hardcover books
C)not in existence
D)made of rolled papyrus
9
Arithmetic was more complicated for the Romans because ____.
A)primitive calculators were inaccurate
B)Roman numerals were hard to read
C)they did not have the Arabic number zero
D)they did not have good teachers
10
____ were virtually impossible to do in ancient Roman times.
A)Estimating and theorizing
B)Counting, adding, and subtracting
C)Calculating length and distance
D)Multiplying and dividing
11
The ____ aided the Romans with their arithmetic.
A)books written by masters in mathematics
B)multiplication tablets
C)abacus
D)system of division that used rocks and stones
12
To prepare boys for a profession in ____, they were given advanced education at the schola grammaticī.
A)scientific research
B)the military
C)law and public life
D)teaching school
13
Most educated Romans learned to speak and write ____.
A)Hebrew
B)Greek
C)French
D)Arabic
14
To be physically fit, boys often participated in running, wrestling, and ____ after class.
A)fencing
B)dodgeball
C)tennis
D)boxing
15
Practical Romans felt that training in literature and ____ was the best educational system.
A)psychology
B)astronomy
C)linguistics
D)philosophy
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