Deck 7: Ancient Rome

Question 1

Which was least likely to be in a forum?

A) temples
B) libraries
C) markets
D) baths
E) basilicas

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following was not associated with the founding of Rome?

A) Venus
B) Aeneas
C) Romulus
D) Remus
E) Virgil

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The Goths were

A) Gauls
B) Dacians
C) Germans
D) Trojans
E) Greeks

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Pompeii was destroyed in

A) A.D. 79
B) the first century B.C.
C)under Nero
D) A.D. 121

Question 5

Pompeiian wall paintings of the Second Style are characterized by

A) scenes like theater sets
B) painted inlaid stone
C) pictures showing paintings on the wall
D) illusionistic landscapes

Question 6

Greek art was championed during the reign of

A) Caesar in the Roman Republic
B) Augustus, the emperor
C) Pliny the Elder
D) Constantine

Question 7

Nero,as described by Suetonius,exemplifies

A) political know-how
B) generosity
C) grandiosity
D) military strategy

Question 8

Which of the following was not built under Trajan?

A) Timgad
B) Dacia
C) markets
D) a forum
E) basilica

Question 9

The Ides of March are

A) when Roman emperors are killed
B) the middle of the month
C) the birthday of the Roman emperor
D) the end of the month
E) the beginning of the month

Question 10

Roman concrete was a mixture of

A) water, tufa, travertine, and rubble
B) water, mortar, gravel, and rubble
C) stucco, plaster, water, mortar, and rubble
D) tufa, rubble, gravel, and mortar

Question 11

Which of the following was not a use of the Roman basilica?

A) commerce
B) worship
C) law courts
D) administration

Question 12

The Pont du Gard at Nîmes was

A) an aqueduct
B) a temple
C) a bridge
D) an aqueduct and a bridge

Question 13

Hadrian was especially influenced by

A) Egyptian religion
B) Greek styles
C) Virgil's Aeneid
D) Homer's Iliad
E) Marcus Aurelius

Question 14

Republican Roman art depicted

A) all of these
B) realistic subjects
C) portraits
D) celebration of age and character

Question 15

Virgil wrote the Aeneid for

A) Julius Caesar
B) Augustus
C) Trajan
D) Constantine
E) Caracalla

Question 16

Which of the following is the best pair?

A) Virgil and Odysseus
B) Ovid and the Metamorphoses
C) Trajan and the Meditations
D) Marcus Aurelius and the Commentarii

Question 17

Which was not part of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.?

A) Gaul
B) Britain
C) Egypt
D) Nubia

Question 18

Two streets intersecting at right angles in ancient Roman cities were the

A) castra and cardo
B) insula and decumanus
C) castra and decumanus
D) cardo and decumanus

Question 19

Which was not a Roman architectural type?

A) the private house
B) the round temple
C) the peripteral temple
D) the circus
E) the Colosseum

Question 20

The Golden House belonged to

A) Suetonius
B) Caracalla
C) Constantine
D) Nero
E) Trajan

Question 21

Which is least likely to have been a feature of the Roman bath?

A) a museum
B) a tepidarium
C) a swimming pool
D) a ball court
E) a market

Question 22

Which is incorrect?

A) Juno is the wife of Jupiter
B) Vulcan is the son of Juno
C) Diana is the daughter of Juno
D) Minerva is the daughter of Jupiter
E) Mercury is the god of speed

Question 23

Which is not a feature of Roman triumphal arches?

A) relief sculptures
B) an attic
C) inscriptions
D) the Composite Order
E) a portico

Question 24

In contrast to Greek temples,Roman temples usually were __________.

A) set on tall podiums
B) approached from a single side
C) pseudoperipteral
D) set on tall podiums, approached from a single side, and pseudoperipteral

Question 25

Which is true of Roman temples?

A) they were peripteral
B) they have a front and a back porch
C) they have a double cella
D) they are pseudo-peripteral

Question 26

Coffering

A) helped expand interior space
B) lighten the weight of a dome or arch
C) enhances the illusion of recession in the ceiling
D) lighten the weight of a dome or arch and enhances the illusion of recession in the ceiling

Question 27

The columns of the Colosseum were arranged in the following order from the first to the third level:

A) Doric, Corinthian, Ionic
B) Ionic, Doric, Corinthian
C) Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
D) Corinthian, Ionic, Doric
E) Corinthian, Doric, Ionic

Question 28

The Ara Pacis was constructed under

A) Augustus
B) Julius Caesar
C) Trajan
D) Nero
E) Constantine

Question 29

The Column of Trajan is uniquely Roman because of

A) its enormous height
B) its narrative frieze
C) its setting
D) its material

Question 30

Which is not a feature of the Pantheon?

A) an oculus
B) a rectangular cella
C) a rotunda
D) a portico
E) a curved entablature

Question 31

The Colosseum was constructed during the reign of

A) Nero
B) Trajan
C) Vespasian
D) Constantine
E) Caracalla

Question 32

The Roman Colosseum was built primarily of __________.

A) concrete
B) brick
C) sandstone
D) iron

Question 33

The Roman circus was used primarily for

A) animal performances
B) libraries
C) gladiatorial contests
D) horse races
E) chariot races

Question 34

The reliefs of Trajan's column differ from classical Greek reliefs in the

A) use of a spiral frieze
B) realistic rather than idealized battle scene
C) emphasis on historical facts
D) use of a spiral frieze, realistic rather than idealized battle scene, and emphasis on historical facts

Question 35

Which is not a commemorative monument?

A) Trajan's Column
B) the Arch of Titus
C) the Ara Pacis
D) Colosseum
E) the Pantheon

Question 36

The Pantheon included that included

A) barrel vaults and groin vaults
B) a central dome
C) an eight-sided room
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 37

Trajan's most famous monument was

A) the Baths of Trajan
B) an Arch of Trajan
C) the Ara Pacis of Trajan
D) Trajan's Column

Question 38

An oculus is

A) the opening at the center of a dome
B) a mystical doorway in a temple
C) the portholes in a Roman galley
D) the window in the wall above the main level of a temple which let light in

Question 39

The most impressive Roman buildings were faced with

A) marble
B) tufa
C) concrete
D) terracotta

Question 40

Which best describes the architectural features of the basilica?

A) aisles, apses, nave, clerestory windows
B) aisles, nave, clerestory windows, impluvium
C) apses, nave, impluvium, aisles
D) atrium, nave, aspe, clerestory windows

Question 41

Apotheosis refers to

A) deification
B) abdication
C) ascending to power
D) election to office

Question 42

Trajan's purpose in declaring war on the Dacians was to obtain their

A) territory
B) women
C) gold
D) works of sculpture
E) weapons

Question 43

The Tophet refers to

A) a Punic shrine
B) a temple
C) a site of child sacrifice
D) a site of ritual suicide

Question 44

Which was not a Roman funerary practice?

A) the use of cinerary urns
B) the necropolis
C) the sarcophagus
D) burial in graves

Question 45

Dido was

A) the deserted wife of Aeneas
B) the queen of Carthage
C) the queen of Faiyum
D) the heroine of Petrarch's Africa

Question 46

Faiyum painting was produced in

A) Greece
B) Egypt
C) Rome
D) Nubia
E) Carthage

Question 47

The entry court of a Roman house was called the __________.

A) aquarium
B) atrium
C) bacterium
D) oculus

Question 48

The Young Woman with a Stylus is an example of

A) a relief
B) a marble bust
C) a tondo
D) a second style fresco

Question 49

Marcus Aurelius was

A) an emperor and poet
B) an emperor and Stoic philosopher
C) a poet and Platonic philosopher
D) Hadrian's lover
E) an equestrian monument

Question 50

Hercules is the son of

A) Juno and Jupiter
B) Alkmene and Amphitryon
C) Juno and Amphitryon
D) Jupiter and Alkmene

Question 51

Which is not true of the Villa of the Mysteries frescoes?

A) they represent an initiation rite
B) they have erotic elements
C) they have a red background
D) the figures are naturalistic
E) they include details of landscape

Question 52

The Punic Wars were fought between

A) Rome and Carthage
B) Rome and Greece
C) Rome and Phoenicia
D) Rome and Etruria

Question 53

Which is not a characteristic of Roman frescoes?

A) they are fresco secco
B) they are often found in private houses
C) they are naturalistic
D) they contain shading, cast shadows, and oblique viewpoints
E) they contain the illusion of three-dimensional space

Question 54

Roman's may well have developed it early,but they probably did not use

A) formal linear perspective
B) aerial perspective
C) architectural frames
D) painterly technique

Question 55

In the Odyssey Landscape illustrated in this chapter

A) cannibals are depicted
B) Laestrygonians are depicted helping Odysseus' men
C) there is no landscape detail
D) people are hunting animals

Question 56

The portrait of Artemidoros

A) is an ancestor portrait
B) is a fresco
C) is encaustic
D) is a portrait bust

Question 57

The figures from the frieze of the Villa of the Mysteries are thought to depict an initiation into __________.

A) the cult of Artemis
B) Christianity
C) the cult of Bacchus
D) the cult of Isis and Osiris

Question 58

The Jewish Wars were chronicled by

A) Josephus
B) Virgil
C) Suetonius
D) Julius Caesar
E) Ovid